User blog comment:Ciencia Al Poder/Portable Infoboxes, the first step into Wikia taking control over our content/@comment-5558012-20170501151446

I didn't look into the details of what happened on that wiki (honestly I'd likely not get the whole picture anyways), but I will say Staff have no right to forcibly override a community as long as that community isn't doing something that violates the TOU. Otherwise, what's the point of a community or us users bothering to spend many, many hours constructing and adding content to a wiki? If wikis really don't want PIs, good for them. Just as whether a wiki adds styling or not or what type of content they add, how they write it, etc etc, what they do is going to influence the number of readers they retain or expand upon.

Hmm, being blocked for "Interference with official Fandom operations"? Isn't that interesting.

I personally don't think the PI syntax is going anywhere anytime soon (I would be very upset if I needed to change infoboxes again later down the road, as with so many other Fandom updates/reversals). Though I also don't believe it's the correct option in all cases (I'm actually looking into the feasibility of converting a non-infobox template into a PI and at the moment it seems like a poor choice, all to benefit mobile. If mobile could better handle the current template, which would only need minor styling in mobile as no content is negatively affected, there would be no issue.).