Talk:Felix Mendelssohn: Difference between revisions

#{{sbb}} '''Yes''' per {{u|Nemov}}. The infobox is almost a Wikipedia trademark at this point. I personally have been looking at the infobox before the lead since before my voice cracked, when I used Wikipedia to write little presentations for my 6th grade social sciences class (good days, eh?). I am heavily in favor of an assumption in favor of infoboxes unless proven otherwise, because they're just plain ''useful''. <span style="border:1px solid;padding:2px 6px;font-variant:small-caps">'''〜 [[User:Festucalex|<span style="color:#3cb400">Festucalex</span>]] • [[User talk:Festucalex|<span style="color:#ff007f">talk</span>]]'''</span> 18:52, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

# '''Yes'''. As a text person, I'm not ''personally'' a big fan of infoboxes, and I do wonder if some of the existing use of them is more a matter of inertia and the known tendency of tables and templates to resist removal once added. But I think the accessibility point raised above is crucial: some readers will have an easier time reading text and some will have an easier time with the infobox format, so it's good to make both readily available. Also, given that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and only incidentally a website, it seems beneficial to offer data in formats that maximize the different opportunities for downstream use, so that anyone who wants to can create an infobox-free Wikipedia mirror, or for that matter an infobox-only one. While the local consensus of editors is always important, the use of infoboxes has become such a standard practice that I, at least, would need to see some argument about the ''unique'' features of this article to feel justified weighing a one-article consensus against infoboxes more heavily than what has become a broad edit-consensus in favor of them. -- [[User:Visviva|Visviva]] ([[User talk:Visviva|talk]]) 02:46, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

 

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