Help:Spoilers

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You're kidding me. Did you just stuff that Aperture Science Thing-We-Don't-Know-What-It-Does into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator? — GLaDOS

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The Portal series is heavily story-based, as such any information regarding the story may be damaging to the experience of new players or players of whom have not completed the game. To reduce the exposure of Spoilers to players, there are guidelines and practices we have in regards to spoilers.

{{Spoiler text}}

The Spoiler text template designates a block of text as a spoiler and spoilers marked using this template will be hidden from view if a user turns spoilers on.

How to use it

Pass the text to be marked as-spoiler as the first parameter of the template. The above example was generated by:

{{Spoiler text|The Spoiler text template designates a block of text as a spoiler and spoilers marked using this template will be hidden from view if a user turns spoilers on.}}

When to use it

This template should be used for every piece of text that contains spoilers.

Around the Wiki community

Discussion pages

Discussion pages (including user-talk pages) should have an equal amount of care taken with regards to adding spoilers.

IRC

On the Wiki IRC channel, there is a strict no-spoilers policy. Anybody who posts spoilers in the channel will receive a 24-hour ban. Repeat offenders will be permanently banned.