Forum:CT Archive/Moviespoiler modification

'WARNING: By its nature, this thread may contain some very minor discussion of spoilers. They will be minimal, however, if you absolutely do not want to have any, then leave now.'

So as has been discussed to death in IRC chat and over at Forum:SH:Wookieepedia spoiler lockdown, we have a problem with Template:Moviespoiler and the problem is this - people aren't using it the way we defined it. When we set it up, the idea was that the template would only be placed on subjects originating for the film. For example, Supremacy would carry the template and Yoda would not, instead it would only carry Template:Moviespoiler. The idea was that this would keep people from being spoiled simply by the presence of Moviespoiler template that Yoda (or anyone else that would be a surprise) appears in the film.

However, it doesn't seem to be working out this way. People aren't following that rule. Moviespoiler has been posted on Yoda and plenty of other subjects that definitely don't originate from The Last Jedi, for example, Skywalker's lightsaber. It was also pointed out to me that people rely on that template to know specifically that there are going to be spoilers about what happened in the film within the article and so they would be angry if they didn't see it and then read through the Yoda article, for example, and saw spoilers about The Last Jedi.

Therefore, I am proposing as we have discussed that we modify the rule such that any article with information originating from the film or associated media carries the Moviespoiler template. ProfessorTofty (talk) 20:12, December 22, 2017 (UTC)

Support
This is what everybody's already doing anyway and what people seem to want, let's just codify it. ProfessorTofty (talk) 20:12, December 22, 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Note: If "Object" wins, then our articles need to be updated with due haste to correct the current incorrect usage. ProfessorTofty (talk) 20:12, December 22, 2017 (UTC)