On 5/20/2007 10:08 AM, 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. Probably because it's a little impersonal to reduce a human being down to a few entries in an infobox.
I liked the people infoboxes a lot more when they just contained the dates and places of birth and death (though I think it be left up to editors of the article to decide if they are aesthetically pleasing on a particular page or not). The people infoboxes that contain more information, like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Philosopher
don't seem to accomplish much aside from making sweeping generalizations and provoking edit wars over those generalizations.
--Chris