[WikiEN-l] {{Spoiler}} insanity

Matthew Brown morven at gmail.com
Thu May 17 04:26:16 UTC 2007


On 5/16/07, Gallagher Mark George <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> Infoboxen can be incredibly useful for at-a-glance statistics, e.g. countries, the dates of a
> monarch's reign, etc.  They are more often annoying.  Occasionally we can see infoboxen that
> are just ridiculous (I don't have a real example off-hand, but imagine if the [[Superman]] article ---
> which I haven't looked at; I hope it doesn't --- had an infobox with sections like "Special powers"
> and "Supervillain enemies").

[[Superman]] does indeed have an infobox.

It does not list 'Supervillain enemies' but does list 'Abilities' (a
long list) as well as 'Affiliations' and 'Aliases', among others, as
well as real-world attributes such as first appearance and creators.

-Matt



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