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Old 12-25-2011, 11:19 AM
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Default On spoilers and formatting

We have a policy against including avoidable spoilers, but I'm wondering just how far it should go; the precise issue being Se7en. For those who don't know, this movie takes great pains to hide the killer's identity, even excluding the actor's name (no need to say who it is in this thread) from the opening credits.

However, he's seen holding a gun in the movie; normal article format would be for us to say "John Doe ([[Actor's Name]]) uses a [[gun]]," but this is a major spoiler as he appears in scenes before he's revealed as the killer. I'm of the opinion that it should be included like this anyway since otherwise there is no link to the actor's page, and the page does not fulfil part of the site's goal for live-action of stating which actors used the weapons in question.

Ben41 has disagreed with me over this, and I'll let him put forward his own case on the matter.

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