Forum:SH:Wookieepedia spoiler lockdown

If you post spoilers in this thread you will be banned. Hello!

As of today, more and more people have seen The Last Jedi, and some have started to add spoilers onto the site. It's very important that we wait to begin adding spoilers to the site until Friday, after the movie has debuted in the entirety of the United States (that's most of our audience). I know that editors who have seen the movie are itching to begin adding information, but this is a site built for readers, and readers are going to want to check out Wookieepedia in the next few days to brush up on Star Wars. We need to make sure we are serving them as best as they can, so editors itching to add spoilers will just have to wait!

As a result, in consultation with admins, I've identified and locked a handful of pages on the wiki that are particularly sensitive to spoilers. You can see that list here&mdash;please let me know if you think any others should be added. '''Note that some of the pages in there are not necessarily reflective of spoilers. I have no idea. We just added some characters that, as a guess, could potentially be part of the film.'''

These pages will be unlocked Friday morning Pacific Time. At that time, to go along with our new Last Jedi-themed design for the wiki, we're also going to replace the word "Wookieepedia" in the page header (this is the text, not the wordmark) with "Contains Spoilers for The Last Jedi!" so it is clear on every page that there are spoilers on this wiki.

If any of the locked pages have any information you think should be added before Friday, please let me know and I can add it for you if you send me the text.

I know this will frustrate some people, so thank you for your patience as we focus on the reader experience these next few days. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 00:04, December 14, 2017 (UTC)