Wikipedia talk:Spoiler/old template talk/Archive 1

message: No reason to protect this page. Admins, please unprotect now. --Cantus 00:40, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Unprotect Now

message: I know that for soap operas, a plot synopsis isn't a spoiler since it has already happened. Therefore, the tags that have been reverted make no sense now. Should they be taken out altogether? TheCustomOfLife 19:41, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soap Opera Use 

message: So the basic ideas are this: 
#It shouldn't be ugly (generally things that are largish/boldish/darkish seem to be called ugly by people), so try not to bold the whole thing, or increase the text size. Keep it normal sized, and put the main part in italics or block, no bold except for the "warning" part maybe.  Use a white or light color background, something not ugly.  
#Second, It has to catch the eye when scrolling past, just catching the eye when reading isn't enough for everyone. So, give it some sort of background so it stands apart from normal text.
We want to satisfy all wikipedians, or as many as possible.  From the two nearly-opposing arguments, the only possible reconciliation is keep the text as standard as possible, while placing a light background behind it.   I care not what color it is or how big the background box is, what links where, or even if the text is italic or block, so long as it satisfies both arguments. This is just an analysis of both sides, take it or leave it...  —siroχo 13:21, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
: I agree completely, but I don't think it's currently eyecatching enough (though it's not ugly, which is a good). I'm gonna recolor the background the pale pink (for which I didn't notice any strong objections), but I won't be upset if it gets reverted for further discussion. Be careful not to revert the spacing change I made earlier today, though (unless it's deliberate), as it wasn't spacing correctly on pages. — OwenBlacker 15:49, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
:: Speaking of spacing, the current version as I'm writing this is an edit at 16-Aug-2004 23:00 by User:Cantus. I think it's adding too much whitespace at the top and bottom (it looks like two lines worth of whitespace on both sides). I would direct attention to Ringworld and Police Academy as just two examples. In the wiki source for both of those, there is a single line of whitespace both above and below the , which I think is fairly common. But on the rendered HTML it looks like two lines above and below, way too much whitespace IMO. When I view the HTML source, it has a  at the start of the spoiler HTML, which appears to be the cause of all the whitespace. I'm not sure why that's getting added, but I think it might have to do with having a Template inside of a Template (the Template:Message box thingie). - Eisnel 00:52, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The Wikipedian thing to do

message: Formatting of the spoiler warning looks terrible on some articles (see, e.g., Isaac Asimov#Paternalism). Can we go back to text-only, possibly bolded? Meelar (talk) 20:55, 2004 Aug 17 (UTC)
:I don't see how that's terrible? Please be more specific. Are you sure it's not your browser that makes it look terrible? Here's how Opera7.5 renders the page. --ZeroOne 21:47, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The formatting