Board Thread:Policies/@comment-3361105-20160329180157

In an effort to combat having things spoiled for our editors, I've written a piece of code that prevents the character template from adding to "Deceased Characters" for a set grace period.

For movies, video games, and comics, the grace period is one month long. For TV episodes, the grace period is ten days.

Basically, this allows editors (and anyone browsing the recent wiki activity or the deceased characters category) to avoid having deaths spoiled for them by the automatic notifications about category changes on followed pages.

So, if you are an editor adding the "Death" field to a character page, be aware that if you are doing so within the spoiler-free grace period, the category will not be added until the grace period is up (and even then, probably not until wikia's cache updates).

Note that if the death field is filled out, whether within the grace period or not, the "Living Characters" category will be removed.

Also note that the issue/movie/episode/game where the character dies will still be listed in the infobox. Only the categories are affected.

Do not manually add the Category:Deceased Characters category to pages. Use the Death field.

This is part of an ongoing effort to reduce spoilers site-wide, without being too draconian about it, out of fairness for those who may not have the time, funds, or drive to consume the latest thing as soon as it comes out. 