Oh, you mean the actual infoboxes! I thought that you meant using Wikidata with infoboxes. Not using an infobox at all actually concerns me less, because I care most strongly about translating article, and when an infobox doesn't exist, it doesn't get in the way of the translator :)
That said, hundreds of thousands of articles in a lot of languages do have infoboxes: wars, cities, languages, athletes, members of parliament, animals, music albums and so on, and something must be done about them.
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2014-08-12 23:37 GMT+03:00 David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com:
In classical music biographies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classical_music/Guidelin... Which was brought to the arbitration comitee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes
A general essay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disinfoboxes
In German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Infoboxen_in_Personen...
A rough translation of the current situation:
"Again and again people infoboxes are created in the German Wikipedia. They are also regularly deleted on the grounds: "DE:WP wants no person infoboxes". Such a statement cannot be clearly determined from the many discussions on the topic, there is even evidence of a contrary opinion of the community, is hereby asked whether infoboxes are wanted in persons articles or not.
Currently in the German Wikipedia there are infoboxes for athletes and a few other groups of people."
That RFC was closed due to a lack of votes to start it. I don't know if the arrival of Wikidata has changed the perspective during the last 2 years.
Cheers, Micru
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2014-08-12 22:48 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
On 12 August 2014 14:00, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
What does it entail?
In part, resolving the vehement opposition to infoboxes in parts of the English Wikipedia, and the decision not to use them for biographies on the German Wikipedia.
Thanks, this is a useful answer.
Where is it written in German and English?
I'd like to see their reasoning.
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