User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1372024-20100930104610/@comment-429401-20100930220037

@Sarah Thanks for the link But having looked that just show how bad a page looks with the infobox only 200 wide it looks squished and when you dcroll down to the navbox it looks very weird with 1/3 of the page blank space.

Also that big eye wiki ad staring out is horriblely over bearing

Space to the left like on here (in Monaco) is less distracting/dominating as it is like the margin in a book. If users are using higher screen resolution, the fixed width will will be gastly (some pages had issues before with that if they had little content admitly but that could be countered by forcing some text below the box and widening some infoboxes or making them collapse by default.