On 5/20/07, Christiano Moreschi moreschiwikiman@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
The problems start when, as part of the will to brevity, too much gets compressed, and factual accuracy gets shoved aside en route. I'm not trying to knock anyone here, but here are some examples:
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I'm not trying to attack anyone here, because I don't feel that it's anyone's fault. The problems are an inevitable offshoot of the will to brevity: trying to stuff square pegs in round holes, trying to compress things that can't accurately be compressed. When this occurs, so will mistakes.
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.