Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of June 17, 2018

I apologize for the rant but I just really, really need to get this off my chest.

Why are so many Wikipedia editors sociopaths? Holy fuck. The introductory paragraph to the movie mother! contains a major spoiler that occurs a little over halfway through the movie. Many other people, as seen on the talk page, have complained about this, but they won't do shit. They use the argument that they are “trying to summarize the entire article, which is the function of a lead section” and apply Wikipedia’s broadest “lead section” definition.

Then why does every single other fucking film article on the entire fucking site not spoil that much? Huh? IT even says under here to just use a “general premise”! And even then, they still have the fucking tenacity to leave it there, even though it doesn't even follow the standards they set for themselves in the first place! There is NO PRECEDENT for this! It is never customary to spoil that much information in the introductory paragraph - not in any other movie article on the entire site. The mental gymnastics it takes to add that shit boggles my fucking brain. You would think that the #5 ranked site on the internet would have the decency to hide spoilers for an unsuspecting person who wants to peruse basic facts about the movie before watching, but no.

“A basic plot summary will generally spoil the plot if it summarizes the plot. If you don't want know what happens in a story (film, novel, historical account, religious text, opera, TV series, etc.), it's very bad idea to read an encyclopedia article about it. That should be common sense.” Well guess what, this isn’t any fucking encyclopedia, this is the #5 ranked site on the web, that everybody uses to read up on the basic facts about the movie, before actually playing the movie.

What is there to be done about this specific case? I've tried reasoning with them and they are just too fucking stubborn.

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