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is '''less than worthless''', because the first is left saying nothing at all, while the second one hides the ''most'' important part of the example (the name of the work).
 
The best workaround in a case where a [[Self -Fulfilling Spoiler]] seems necessary is to rephrase it until it ''isn't''. For instance, if a character's gender turns out not to be what the viewer/reader/player was led to believe it was, it doesn't do much good to put the correct pronoun in spoiler tags. But "the time {{spoiler|her}} arm was injured provides a good example of this" can be changed to "the arm injury provides a good example of this" (opinions about "passive voice" aside). This can require some creativity.
 
Be particularly careful with short names: If you say "In [[Harry Potter]], {{spoiler|Ron}} has a wand with a unicorn hair core", it's pretty obvious there aren't many characters whose names will fit in a spoiler box of that size, which will make it relatively clear which character you're talking about -- this goes double for any character with a [[One-Letter Name]].
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