[WikiEN-l] Being bold doesn't work anymore, or why our prose is so bad.

[Steve Bennett]

On 9/9/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> IMO, an article should contain most information in the prose.  The
> infobox is a place for a summary of quick facts, and perhaps for
> statistics that would make for dry reading in the article itself.

I'd lean towards repeating material in both. There are lots of
downstream uses of Wikipedia text that will have trouble processing
infoboxes. Best to have it in the text as well. But succession
information, flags, maps, categorisation etc can all just be in the
infobox.

Steve