User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20130402085158

We've had a couple of incidents of spoilers in the forums, so maybe it's time for a quick review.

A spoiler is any information, whether narrative or behind-the-scenes, about any story, in any medium, which has not been released in its entirety. In the case of a multi-part story, it's anything beyond the part which has been most recently officially released.

Let me focus on the area that's giving people the most problems lately: You may not under any circumstances use our forums to discuss the upcoming anniversary specials. Indeed, there is nowhere on this wiki, outside of The Howling, where you may discuss them, write articles about them, reveal who's in it, or link to a page somewhere else on the web about it. Should you choose to ignore this warning, from further editing of this wiki. Period. Permanently. Without appeal. Please try to understand that if you go to an actor's page and edit it to reveal that they're going to be in the upcoming special, you will be massively spoiling things for people. If, for instance—and this is a total example about which I have absolutely no knowledge—Peter Davison were to be cast in the upcoming special, revealing that knowledge either a) necessarily means the Fifth Doctor is in it or b) ruins the surprise of Davison playing someone other than the Fifth Doctor.

Moreover, there will be many, many rumours flying about. We don't want to be in the position of reporting anything that isn't true. So we will wait until the specials—and by "specials" I'm including the docudrama by Mark Gatiss—are actually broadcast to even have a page about them.

This wiki must, and will, be safe to visit and work on whether you like spoilers or not.