From: "MacGyverMagic/Mgm"
<macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com>
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To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Madness of King Infobox
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 23:17:35 +0200
I see infoboxes as an "article at a glance" thing. What's in the box is
usually repeated somewhere in the article, but the point is to have
bite-size bits of info easily accessible to people who don't want to read
the entire article.
Mgm
On 5/18/07, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
As for genre "classical music". I
personally would love to be more
detailed,
but I can't. If you can, please help and be more specific.
The point is that "Genre:Classical music" is...well..redundant?
Classical
music is such a broad term as to be fairly
meaningless anyway, but it's
a
> common term, so you might as well use it. But to say "Genre:Classical
> music"
> in the box, when half the article is taken up with far more specific
> descriptions - it just renders the box useless. It's saying nothing
> whatsoever.
>
> Quite apart from which, why two boxes?
>
> Moreschi
But when the bites in bite-sized are inaccurate or misleading? When the
infobox tries to bite off too much by simplifying complex information
excessively? As I recall, that was the case at [[Josquin des Prez]]. Then
the problems start.
Besides, can no one tell me why two infoboxes on one article at the same
time?
Moreschi
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