[WikiEN-l] The Madness of King Infobox

[Gabe Johnson]

On 5/18/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Sometimes infoboxes are more than that, though. The infoboxes for
> various articles on planets, stars, countries, chemical elements, etc.
> have a lot of detailed statistics that aren't presented elsewhere in the
> article and would make for dreadfully dry reading if they were (eg,
> Rambot articles). Infoboxes work well for that sort of thing.
>
> As for the voice-as-instrument thing, that makes sense to me too. If
> someone were to make beautiful music by cracking his knuckles I'd call
> his knuckles his instrument.
>

Tried that. Did not work. Will send more details when fingers heal.

:-)

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