User blog comment:Technobliterator/Data-Oriented Infoboxes/@comment-25014407-20181220235049

I'd say I use pretty data-heavy infoboxes on Olympics Wiki (mainly this one), but I intentionally put a list on "Olympic appearances", for example, on different variables, for categorization and to minimize maintenance of these pages on the wiki. Otherwise, it would be pretty tedious to add another entry to the list every 2-4 years, as well as updating this in the text, and updating the categories. I also use a converter to make the "height" variable as consistent as possible (although I still have to convert some pages that still use the old infobox). There's also the fact that mercury breaks down a  in groups of 4 parameters, which makes the infobox more readable either way.

Once upon a time, there was a staff member who replaced an image in one of my infoboxes because it was a copy of an image on Wikimedia. Turns out, images on Wikimedia are broken in mercury, so this staff member broke the infobox on mobile. The end.