All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XII

[Bob Schroeck]

So I finally went to reconcile these two, and I realize that what we have here are two templates with almost identical names with two wildly varying purposes.

One is a warning to the reader that by the very nature of the page its contents will include unmarked spoilers.

The other is a maintentance alert much like {{cleanup}} indicating that the page has spoilers that should be hidden and aren't.

They also apply different categories to their pages:  "Unmarked Spoilers" for the reader warning, "Pages with Unmarked Spoilers" for the maintenance alert.

Contrary to my earlier stance, I'm thinking now that we shouldn't merge these... but maybe rename the maintenance alert to something a little more indicative instead.  How do {{spoilers need markup}} or even just {{fix spoilers}} sound?

That's a good idea, makes sense. The two template names are fine, but I prefer {{fix spoilers}}.

For the categories applied, the one for the maintenance template should be renamed to something different, like "Pages Needing Spoiler Markup".

The unmarked spoiler templates I added to some pages were meant as a warning to the reader.

Okay, finally got around to this after ten months.  {{Unmarked Spoilers}} is the user warning, {{fix spoilers}} is the maintenance alert.  There is no {{Unmarked spoilers}} template any more.

However, in the process of doing this, I realized that we also have two different "how we do spoilers" pages -- All The Tropes:Style Guide/Spoilers, and All The Tropes:Handling Spoilers.  The latter is where "Spoiler Policy" redirects, while the former is the target for the shortcuts ATT:SPOILER and ATT:SPOIL.  These have a fair amount of overlap; or to be more precise, they both seem to descend from the same source document, given some very similar text between the two, but they've branched out in different directions.  I've added crosslinks between the two, but it might be worth examining them to see if it's a good idea to merge them (back?) into a single document.

We also have a couple user-created spoiler-warning templates that were made for the various Gunnerkrigg Court recap pages back in April or thereabouts, based on the now-gone {{Unmarked spoilers}} template.  I've started the process of bringing these more into alignment with the visual style of {{Unmarked Spoilers}} but the database just got locked for maintenance and I won't be able to finish the job until that's done.