On 5/18/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
From: "MacGyverMagic/Mgm" macgyvermagic@gmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@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@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
It was a slylistic mistake, and does not justify the complete removal of infoboxes. They provide a convenient summary. ~~~~