Charlotte Webb wrote:
In abbreviated form, those will be the rebuttals to
your solution.
Whether they would be valid ones I don't know yet. Suppose I would
have to read the small print.
While I agree we would probably be better off without {{spoiler}} tags
anywhere, I can't say the same for infoboxes. The real problem there
is inconstant formatting from one template to the next, and that there
are too many specialized ones, and in some cases nobody can agree on
which one should be used (see Paderewski). Ideally it wouldn't matter.
For now the best approach would probably be to limit the ability of
wikiprojects to annex articles of debatable relevance. Probably I'm as
annoyed by talk page banners as you are by infoboxes.
My attitude toward infoboxes is about as generous as my attitude toward
spoiler warnings, but what seems important to me in dealing with this
category of problem is maintaining focus. By taking one of these
problems, like spoiler warnings, and combining our energies to deal with
it we can be far more effective than in trying to deal with all of them
at the same time. Our opponents tend to be particularly focused to the
point of monomania.
This does not diminish the importance of the other problems; it's only a
tactical deferral.
Ec