"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.
I agree. They are used to slip some unverifiable horrors past the RS-police.
Charles
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The infobox for [[Johannes Gutenberg]] once said "inventor of printing" & once said "goldsmith". it now says "inventor, engraver, and printer." One of those working on the page is certain Gutenberg undoubtedly merely adapted earlier Chinese & Korean inventions, & another is convinced the Asian inventions were undoubtedly irrelevant. (There is scholarly support for both positions, & a number of others.) The current version is a compromise that took months to negotiate, even after the wording for the article was negotiated.
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"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.
I agree. They are used to slip some unverifiable horrors past the RS-police.
Charles
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From: "David Goodman" dgoodmanny@gmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An infobox achievement Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:44:01 -0400
The infobox for [[Johannes Gutenberg]] once said "inventor of printing" & once said "goldsmith". it now says "inventor, engraver, and printer." One of those working on the page is certain Gutenberg undoubtedly merely adapted earlier Chinese & Korean inventions, & another is convinced the Asian inventions were undoubtedly irrelevant. (There is scholarly support for both positions, & a number of others.) The current version is a compromise that took months to negotiate, even after the wording for the article was negotiated.
On 5/20/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"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.
I agree. They are used to slip some unverifiable horrors past the
RS-police.
Charles
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Interesting - infoboxes certainly give people something else to fight over, and doubtless the fight is much harder to sort out when you only have a few words to play with.
They also give the vandals something else to vandalize, but that's neither here nor there :)
Moreschi
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Interesting - infoboxes certainly give people something else to fight
over,
and doubtless the fight is much harder to sort out when you only have a
few
words to play with.
Heh, I can think of the the times when SPUI and when ed g2s edit-warred over Infobox road. Even more, I remember SPUI *removing* the infobox off of California State Route 15 once...
- -- Charli (vishwin60) When someone just writes 'f**k, f**k, f**k', we just fix it, laugh and move on. But the difficult social issues are the borderline cases — people who do some good work, but who are also a pain in the neck. ~Jimbo Wales