On 6/23/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/23/06, Kirill Lokshin
<kirill.lokshin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I suspect, though, that it matters to our
*readers* (you know, those
people we're supposed to be writing this thing for). It costs us
nothing to add a template to an article about a movie noting that the
surprise ending is revealed; and while most readers may not care,
there are some that, desiring to avoid reading such materials, will
thank us for our foresight in providing such a warning.
And it would be so nice if we would say "THE ENDING IS REVEALED IN THE
NEXT PARAGRAPH"
The boat sinks.
"YOU CAN START READING AGAIN"
As opposed to stamping "Somewhere in this article, the plot of this
film may be discussed" indiscriminately on all film or TV articles.
Which is worth zero to anyone.
Indeed. Some people tend to cover too much of the article with such
tags; in most cases, there should only be a paragraph or two that
really needs them.
(There are, of course, extreme cases, such as [[Darth Vader]], but
these tend to be quite rare and can be handled as exceptions to the
general rule.)
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Kirill Lokshin