Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles

From time to time, editors insert additional disclaimers into an article either as text or as a template – for instance, "This article contains profanity" or "This article is not suitable for children" or "Spoiler ahead".

There are a few notable exceptions:

For the purpose of this guideline, disclaimers are templates or text inserted into an article that duplicate the information at one of the five standard disclaimer pages:

Minority arguments in favour of disclaimers have included:

This content guideline represents a solid and longstanding consensus on the . It has not been elevated to the status of policy, because of the few possible exceptions listed above, and a certain room for disagreement about precisely how far these exceptions should be taken.

Nonetheless, any future modifications of this guideline should be implemented only after consensus for the change has been achieved.

A short list of previous discussions is at . Some older discussion are at or in the templates for deletion archives.

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