Forum:Spoiler Guidelines

Insaneular suggested this; I'm just putting up what we discussed and put together. It should be noted that these will serve as noteworthy guidelines, not a top-heavy policy that will be strictly enforced with harsh punishment. Please add any comments, other ideas, criticism or discussion that comes to mind below the line at the bottom of the policy.

Basic Guidelines

 * The beginning of a character's history should be marked with a startspoiler tag and the end of the character's family section should be marked with an endspoiler tag. It should be noted that the endspoiler tag occurs before the citations section.
 * A book's plot summary and additional information should be marked with spoiler tags.
 * Unreleased book articles should not have any plot information added to them until the release.
 * Information from books that have yet to be released should not be added in character history until the release.
 * EXCEPTION: Book allegiances are permitted.


 * When discussing spoilers from an unreleased book on user talk pages or blogs, users are recommended to mark these comments with bold text spoiler notes; i.e: SPOILER It's revealed in Night Whispers that... SPOILER END.
 * It should be noted this is not a strict rule, but highly encouraged.

Specific Guidelines

 * Do not add spoilers into character descriptions.
 * These include anything that alters the character's original appearance in the series; i.e: Longtail's blindness

Now, please share your opinions. This will be up until Saturday, June 12, then taken to the Voting Booth for clearance. --Bram ble 02:45, June 8, 2010 (UTC)