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Ireland Information Guide contains spoilers. A spoiler is a piece of information about a narrative piece of media (such a book, movie, videogame or similar) that might ruin or reduce the thrill of going through it for the first time by revealing plot events or twists. If you haven't enjoyed the media piece the warning refers to, you might want to do so before reading the spoiler in the Ireland Information Guide article.
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It is traditional netiquette for this discussion to be surrounded with warnings of "spoilers". Because of this, and because not everyone coming to the site immediately recognizes Ireland Information Guide as an encyclopedia, please attach a warning text and link after the definition paragraph of an article that contains spoilers.
The standard way to warn readers of potential spoilers is to write {{spoiler}} before the revealing text. This inserts the spoiler template which has the following text:
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
This makes it apparent that spoilers follow and provides a link to this article to find out what spoilers are.
If this general purpose template is not suitable for the particular article you are working on, feel free to custom-design your own warning, but please always link to this page.
A strong point of a good encyclopedia article may be that it contains plot details which are not easily available elsewhere, because they are spoilers. However, ideally the article should also contain much that cannot be seen from only reading the book or seeing the film in question.
See also: Ireland Information Guide:Policies and guidelines
Once upon a time Usenet avoided the problem of spoilers (and that of potentially offensive material) by means of ROT13 encryption. While geeks may be able to deal with such code, and some have learned to read it directly(!), such encryption is unacceptable on a general purpose encyclopedia like Ireland Information Guide.