User talk:Alden Loveshade
Spoilers
Hi please make sure to read our spoiler policy at Tardis:Spoiler policy. No matter how official something is, on this wiki it's considered a spoiler until air time of an episode with the information. The posts you have made on the discussion board have been deleted because you did not put them in the Spoilers category. Thanks Shambala108 ☎ 03:15, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- As talk pages are no longer fully supported by Fandom, I'm posting this both as an edit to the original post on my talk page and am posting it on the talk page of the editor who posted on my talk page.
- As it happens, I did read the Spoiler policy and also the Spoiler page which defines spoiler differently. By both of those, I personally don't see this as a spoiler. Among many other sources, it's been publicly reported as headline news (i.e. even without reading the article, the information is in the headline) by:
- scifi.radio
- huffpost.com
- wikipedia.org
- cnn.com
- hollywoodlife.com
- cbsnews.com
- nbcnews.com
- abcnews.go.com
- abc.net.au
- sabcnews.com
- flipboard.com
- thesun.co.uk
- the-sun.com
- theverge.com
- popbuzz.com
- radiotimes.com
- npr.com
- news.yahoo.com
- theguardian.com
- vulture.com
- columbian.com
- euronews.com
- theglobalherald.com
- nytimes.com
- people.com
- buzzfeednews.com
- theguardian.com
- usatoday.com
- wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu
- usmagazine.com
- ign.com
- ew.com
- collider.com
- variety.com
- wsj.com
- tvline.com
- popsugar.com
- insider.com
- aol.com
- digitalspy.com
- msn.com
- sfgate.com
- upi.com
- reuters.com
- bbc.com
- Even doing just a basic search for "Doctor Who," that information pops up among of the top results.
- "Spoiler" is apparently applied on this wiki in a way that doesn't fit English language definitions of the word.
- For example, Merriam-Webster: "information about the plot of a motion picture or TV program that can spoil a viewer's sense of surprise or :suspense" also "a person who discloses such information."
- Perhaps you might want to find or even create a word that would have the definition you intend. This could be a word that would clarify that you do not allow on-topic public information that appears in so many sources that it's hard to avoid seeing it.
- I hope this helps!
- Alden Loveshade ☎ 19:26, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
To be honest, if you have indeed read the spoiler policy and still can't see how stating casting information for a future episode is a spoiler, then I don't know what to tell you. All I can do is continue to remove your edits that violate policy, and if you refuse to understand what our policy is (which has nothing to do with official dictionary definitions and has everything to do with giving every user a safe place to visit), then you may end up being blocked if you continue to violate the policy.
And I don't understand your comment that "talk pages are not supported" since we are obviously having a conversation on our two talk pages. Shambala108 ☎ 03:01, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
