Difference between revisions of "Help:Spoilers"

# Prior to a book's release, no content from it may be added to the wiki. This includes if chapters that are released before the official publication date, as happened with ''[[Oathbringer]]'' and ''[[Rhythm of War]]''. The one exception to this is that a book's page may include things Brandon has said about the book and list the readings that he has done from the book. At this stage, a notice reminding people of this policy may be added to all content pages and/or the welcome page (via [[MediaWiki:Top-notice-ns-0]] and [[MediaWiki:Top-notice-Coppermind:Welcome]]).

# After a book's release, content from it may be added freely. However, for a period of time after the book is released, all pages with content from the book ''must'' be tagged with a spoiler warning, either with {{t|spoilers|2=''first book= code from [[Template:B]]''|''second book code from [[Template:B]]]''|''etc.''}}. orFor example, if an article contains spoilers for ''[[{{b|sa3.5}}|{{b|sa3.5|text=y}}]]'', you would add {{t|multispoilersspoilers|[firstsa3.5}}. bookIf codespoilers from ''[[Template:B]{{b|sa4}}]]'' are then added, you would change this to {{t|[secondspoilers|sa3.5|sa4}} bookand, codeonce fromthe ''[[Template:B]]]{{b|etcsa3.5}}|{{b|sa3.5|text=y}}]]'' (onlyspoiler useperiod is over, you would then change this {{t|multispoilersspoilers|sa4}}. ifOnce therethe actually''[[{{b|sa4}}]]'' arespoiler multipleperiod booksis toover, tagthe spoilerstemplate forcan be removed completely (assuming new books haven't been added). If only one section of a page contains spoilers, you may instead place the spoiler tag at the start of that section.

Though spoilers are not allowed on the Coppermind before a book is released, if content is released before a book's official publication, editors are encouraged to work on this new content in a word processing application on their computer or in a Google doc. When this occurs, the [[Coppermind:Keepers|Keepers]] will provide a method for tracking who is working on what, so that editors don't have to worry about duplicating someone else's work. When copying work from off-wiki to the Coppermind, remember to double check that your apostrophes are straight, not curly (working in a text file&mdash;<code>.txt</code> file extension&mdash;should avoid this problem).