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}}

This image has a caption wrapped by the template, therefore censoring both image and caption if spoilers are set to off.

The Spoiler 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 of. Whereas this text will not be affected, for it is not marked with the template. This piece of text contains an image: ; which will be censored with the text.

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:

[[File:Wiki logo.png|thumb|right|{{Spoiler|This image has a caption wrapped by the template, therefore ''censoring'' both image and caption if spoilers are set to off.}}]]
{{Spoiler|The Spoiler 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 of.}} Whereas this text will not be affected, for it is not marked with the template. {{Spoiler|This piece of text contains an image: [[File:Wiki logo.png|24px]]; which will be ''censored'' with the text.}}

When to use it

This template should be used for every piece of information that contains spoilers. To hide an image, simply define it within the first parameter or have it's caption contain this template.

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.