From: "David Goodman"
<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An infobox achievement
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:44:01 -0400
The infobox for [[Johannes Gutenberg]] once said "inventor of
printing" & once said "goldsmith". it now says "inventor,
engraver,
and printer." One of those working on the page is certain Gutenberg
undoubtedly merely adapted earlier Chinese & Korean inventions, &
another is convinced the Asian inventions were undoubtedly irrelevant.
(There is scholarly support for both positions, & a number of others.)
The current version is a compromise that took months to negotiate,
even after the wording for the article was negotiated.
On 5/20/07, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
"Stephen Bain" wrote
It seems to me that a significant proportion of
the times when
infoboxes don't work well is when they are on articles about people.
I agree. They are used to slip some unverifiable horrors past the
RS-police.
Charles
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Interesting - infoboxes certainly give people something else to fight over,
and doubtless the fight is much harder to sort out when you only have a few
words to play with.
They also give the vandals something else to vandalize, but that's neither
here nor there :)
Moreschi
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