Gregory Maxwell wrote:
In my experience wikitext markup isn't frightening to many people until you are faced with templates.... which are, unfortunately, the first bit of wikitext source that many editors see.
Until one of us if proven to be wrong, let me claim the opposite ;)
Looking at the plain table wiki-code is sure more frightening than the clean abstraction presented by an infobox template call.
If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash those template parameters are much easier to understand than the table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazleton_Mountaineers.
--Ligulem