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:I'm going to have to ask you to explain this. We're building people potentially the most comprehensive encyclopedia ever compiled by human hands, and we're doing it for free. How could we possibly be encouraging them to read ''less''? As an editor, I honestly am baffled by such an accusation. What makes you think we're doing that?

:*"''I don't think placing a time limit on spoilers is neccessarily a good idea. While I wouldn't be surprised to ''not'' find a warning on [[Romeo and Juliet]] or [[Moby Dick]], I still think the same reasoning applies equally well to them. Sure, they've been around for hundreds of years, but most of us haven't. I've only been around 21 years, and there's only so much reading I can do in that time.''"

:In those cases, we'd have to shelter people from their culture too. ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s tale of [[star-crossed]] lovers and Ahab's self-destructive quest to kill [[Moby Dick|the white wale]] are as ingranedingrained into our culture as the evening news. Hell, even ''The Da Vinci Code'' is already an icon of pop culture that people from the US to Greece know the significance of.

:*"''So if you don't want to see these warnings, all you have to do is edit your monobook.css (or whatever skin you're using) and use "visible:none", or something like that. And then you don't have to look at them.''"

:Personally, I don't care about how they look, but even if I did, they'd still be there, regardless of whether or not I could see them. The issue at stake here is this encyclopedia's integrity and quality, and that's not something that will improve if merely ''I'' cannot see the spoiler tags. I am an editor. I'm supposed to concern myself with what the readers are seeing. [[User:Ryu Kaze|Ryu Kaze]] 13:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)