Forum:SH:The Force Awakens Spoilers

So I was thinking that the current spoiler template is very generic. It's a bit easy to ignore and doesn't really do much to differentiate between certain stuff. Might a customized template for anything related to The Force Awakens be desirable? A more bold, obvious template that would clearly indicate to people that the page they're looking at is related to The Force Awakens, for those that just don't want to know anything about the new movie before it comes out if at all possible, but don't really care about other spoilers? And if it's something that would need a Consensus Track, we can do that. ProfessorTofty (talk) 00:14, April 21, 2015 (UTC)


 * I would tend to agree with this. The standard generic spoiler template isn't going to cut it. Many people who will read spoilers for books, comics, etc. want to stay spoiler-free for TFA, and out of courtesy we ought to have something that is clearly and obviously different, preferably with the TFA title card so it's immediately clear. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Jedi Council Chambers 04:47, April 21, 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, a capital idea. People tend to be angry when anything from TFA is spoiled. -  AV-6R7 User talk:AV-6R7 04:54, April 21, 2015 (UTC)
 * Sounds fine to me. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 05:42, April 21, 2015 (UTC)
 * Agree Manoof (talk) 06:22, April 21, 2015 (UTC)

OK, here's a proposed template:

A few notes:
 * The caption quote was lifted from here. I'm not really thrilled with it, so I'm open to other suggestions if anyone has one.
 * The "leave this page now" link is perhaps not necessary, but serves as a convenient quick exit for those who desire it. The Main Page was chosen as the target since in theory it should never contain spoilers; spoilers are already blacklisted from QOTD and DYK, are highly unlikely to appear in FAs or GAs due to the dearth of canon status articles, and the news section should never have anything not officially released by Lucasfilm (and if you want to avoid even that, good luck doing so without getting off the internet completely).
 * The word "major" is not included in front of "spoilers", since to the people that care, spoilers are spoilers no matter how big or small. Thus this is for even the smallest details.
 * Not included in this demo is a special category specifically for articles with The Force Awakens spoilers.

Let me know what you think. As this would need to be referenced from Spoilers, which is a policy, a CT would be necessary for implementation. &mdash;MJ&mdash; Training Room 07:22, April 21, 2015 (UTC)
 * Personally, I'm disappointed you missed the obvious "There has been an awakening." for the quote :P - Sir Cavalier of One FarStar.svg( Squadron channel ) 09:09, April 21, 2015 (UTC)
 * That's what I was thinking too, and I was also thinking of theming the template after Kylo Ren, given that the current spoiler template uses Vader, but I suppose having him in there would itself be a spoiler. Oh, and my thought was to also apply it to anything Journey to the Force Awakens related that gave away something that would tie into the film, so perhaps "Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens or associated media." ProfessorTofty (talk) 14:08, April 21, 2015 (UTC)

That template looks really bad in the Wikia skin and looks like it was designed with Monobook in mind, which is of no help to 99.9999% of Wookieepedia. The colors don't blend together very well either. I've created a slimmer version with different colors that would still get the job done:

- Brandon Rhea (talk) 14:27, April 21, 2015 (UTC)