Forum:Character wiki info race is synth, major spoiler?

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Is there a way to have a spoiler aleart or censorship? Because when I was searching for related quest with—spoiler—Paladin Danse, in the Biography box the first thing was race: Synth...

So what? Should we start removing or hiding content because you don't want that? Besides, none of such things have been said about other games, yet here we are, having all the content at our disposal. ☢ Energy X ☣ 19:50, November 21, 2015 (UTC)

I'm suggesting since the appearance race is human, we could have the actual synth race under a special section at the end of the character page with a story spoiler warning.

No need to move content. Even in your case, we'd be actually lying to the readers. ☢ Energy X ☣ 19:57, November 21, 2015 (UTC)

All the other wikis have spoilers tags or warnings, the synth true identity is a major part of the story and having it display out in the open is ridiculous, it's not lying when the gen 3 synth's major purpose in the game is to deceive/disguise as humans. Readers new to the game who are just looking for character locations/related quests will not care if we didn't display the true race at the start since they are not looking for spoilers.

Then you should know that we are not like other wikis. It is even more ridiculous that we have to hide content, possibly even creating more mess than it is.

Besides, I don't see a big fuss about knowing more. As some people state, spoilers are everywhere. Either take the risk by reading or don't. Plain as that. ☢ Energy X ☣ 20:10, November 21, 2015 (UTC)

I think we do need to look at how to handle the Synth issue. I'm not saying we should hide it, but we have a situation where we effectively have two characters - the synth, and the person who's identity they assume.

It may also be worthwhile asking the question, is "Synth" the race, or is the outward appearance the race? Agent c (talk) 10:22, November 26, 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps a compromise could be a "quarantine period"? Though it wouldn't resolve the issues for new players in the future. I must admit, seeing that plot spoiler by accident (since I like to check out, what the companions like/dislike) was pretty irritating for me. BusinessMonkey 13:07, November 26, 2015 (UTC)

I must admit though, that the idea of apparent race is appealing to me. It's not necessarily lying as the game wants you to believe that in the first place, and the real race can be added in 'Notes' or something. Also, perhaps the character sheets on each companion page don't necessarily have to be edited (I personally don't read much on those sheets unless it's specific details further down, like perk benefits, I don't know if this also is the case for many other users though). My own experience of being spoiled was looking at the Fallout 4 companion overview, so my immediate idea would be to edit the race part out of that page, since I don't necessarily find it important to be there to begin with. What do you guys think? BusinessMonkey 13:13, November 26, 2015 (UTC)