Help:Content Warning

Content warnings are intended to alert readers to material that some individuals might consider objectionable.

Template

The syntax is {{Template:Warning|Your Header (automatically bolded)|Whatever else you want to write.}} (Note that those are curly braces, not the usual square brackets!)

Usage

• Anyone may add a content warning to any page. All warnings are placed by creators or other community members. For reasons such as those specified here, Shousetsu Bang*Bang does not put 'official' warnings on stories.

• Place warnings down the page, preferably in a 'Summary' section. Do not place them at the tops of pages; doing so would indicate that the wiki page itself, not the submission, is what needs the warning.

• Warnings, by their very nature, will probably contain spoilers; these do not have to be marked as such. They should be as general as possible, though: 'Character death' vs. 'Bob suffocates in a molasses flood'.

• Please do not use this template for "joke" warnings. While in the past, editorial warnings have sometimes been used for comic effect (see Rec: Stories Originally Containing Editor's Warnings for Elves), these on the wiki are intended to be honestly, blandly informative.

• While we recognize that what is considered warnable content is very individualized, please try to place warnings only in cases where other people would agree that the content itself is objectionable and presented in the text/art in a way that others might find objectionable to read about/see. As an example, while you yourself may have an strong aversion to pianos, please recognize that this is not a universal nor even a very common reaction to these large yet harmless instruments, and thus their mere presence in a story or artwork does not justify a warning.

• Similarly, please try to place warnings only in cases where objectionable material is present in a submission to such a degree that a warning becomes justified. A brief mention in a story of a murder, for instance, would not justify a warning; a detailed description of that murder might, and even then, not necessarily.

• Warnings may be disputed, though please do not delete them outright. Amend them as you feel necessary, then use the page's Talk page for further discussion.

• If you are placing a warning in an entry and you are the author/artist of a piece, you may indicate as much in the warning box, though it's not necessary you do so.

• Do not warn for porn. We know there's porn.

Example Warnings

While warnings can and should be amended as necessary to fit the situation, a good content warning might be formatted as follows:

For a somewhat less facetious example, the actual warning on Navid Arash Taraghijah: Still Life With Chair (I-XXV) reads as follows: