I came across Template:Chinese at the Nanking Massacre article. At first I thought this was a regular infobox, but I soon realized that this was in fact something very different.

It appears to me that something has gone totally awry in the development of this template. On the template talk page I suggest that it is a "'labour of love' that has gone somewhat amok". I'm used to working also on the Wiktionary project, and I find that the almost complete absence of graphics there is very soothing and beneficial for that type of work. The people working on Template:Chinese obviously are of a completely different mindset.

I attempted to raise the point on the template talk page that the appearance of the template needed to be radically revamped, scaled down or downsized. I was met with a complete lack of understanding of what I was attempting to convey. In fact, I realized that these people obviously have developed a completely eccentric and proprietary set of ideas concerning the relation of their pet project infobox to other infobox templates. So I nominated it for deletion, not really wanting it to go, obviously, but to attempt to give these people a wake-up call. I was rather unsuccessful at this, the TfD ended in speedy keep and nobody appear to have understood in the least what I'm on about. One editor explained that he had tried to make changes in the color scheme of the template...

So, I respectfully subject this issue to this forum requesting comments on whether we all (except for me) think it's fine to have a linguistics infobox that wants to make itself the centrepiece of any and all page on which it is applied.

Halvor / User:meco

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