Target audience So sorry to insult you I agree with much of what you say about what WP should be I m glad you arn t aiming at an educated elite But My comment was relevant because much of the argument about spoiler warnings is really an argument about the purpose of WP and hence about its target audience It is elitist to divide readers of WP into target audience and other People looking for information about whether to play a game are still looking for information and should be catered for Well written articles on WP can do them a service that review sites and amazon can t My models for a scholarly encyclopedic approach to works of fiction are the massive John Clute encyclopedias of Science Fiction and Fantasy because I happen to own them Of course these are much less detailed than WP but their focus is indeed on critical reactions they highlight innovations but don t obsess on plot even central works are generally not described in enough detail to spoil the enjoyment if you read them later Because this sort of info provides a pretty reliable guide to quality I ve read and enjoyed many books years or decades after they were first published which I otherwise wouldn t have bothered with This kind of serendipity was certainly one of Clute s main aims and I don t see why it shouldn t be for Wikipedia I think it would make an excellent WP article with full verifiability if some time after a game was released the editor collated major reviews especially in specialist game mags and summarised the major comments along with things like sales figures awards etc Of course this info is available at review sites but the reader has to do the collation himself and doesn t get the benefit of WP editors consensus checking of reliability Even better would be to describe how later games other stuff was influenced Obviously this would refer to notable features of the game play It seems to me this is what WP WAF is advocating You seem to think a complete description of the plot is essential But a plot summary is always a summary the editor has to decide how much to include Who benefits from a ton of detail Not a prospective player it s bound to contain spoilers Not an experienced player they know it already Presumably someone who has no real interest in the game but needs to know this info I can think of a few examples but nobody I d want to spend hours working for free to help Bottom line IMHO an encyclopedia is a tool for providing relevant information Doing so in a way which satisfies the demands of as many readers as possible is a good Too much information can actually be off putting to most readers and serve the interests of a very few Spoiler warnings at least give visual clues to help skip info unwanted by probably the large majority of readers