On 9/6/07, Dschwen lists@schwen.de wrote:
But wouldn't it be smarter to split {{Information Louvre}} into {{Information}} and {{Louvre}}, and use as many of the fields in Information as possible and put additional data into the louvre template. This way even a dumb bot could harvest some data from the image page (without knowledge about tons of special purpose templates).
Exactly! +1. Just split out the duplicate fields. At lest then there is exactly one uniform way to read the data which is common.
There would also be value in doing the same with narrower and narrower sets of data ... a {{Information painting}} which has fields which are common to all paintings but not common to all images (and optional fields common to most),.. then {{Information Louvre}} would be left with only those fields which are really unique to works in the louvre. (location/catalog information).