Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-32354545-20180202071923/@comment-32354545-20180208115350

I see. Well, I think it should definitely be switched to a portable infobox. However, I am still not a fan of hiding it in the main namespace. I still don't understand the reasoning behind doing so.

I have been trying to give comfort to some folks who fear the template would be used in article namespace. I was never fully behind that myself, and it can easily be reverted if needed.

Fandyllic wrote: As someone who is party to the discussion on the Templates wiki (and an admin there), I don't think there should be a generic portable "Template:Infobox" as it is unlikely to work well for almost any use. The big problem was that portable infoboxes didn't support the ability to be modular, meaning having customizable headings when they are used. Now apparently they do, but Fandom staff doesn't seem to want a generically name one.

However, having a modular infobox, even if it is non-portable, is useful early on for wikis as they are very flexible for presenting many different types of infobox data without having to make a new infobox every time.

I think we should just have a notice at "Template:Infobox" with recommendations about what to do based on how much the user wants to customize their infoboxes.

It's good to have a discussion like this here, because at Templates wiki we were mostly talking about the technical procedures for how to move stuff around and rename it.

I have just feared that the user might find nothing at Template:Infobox on Templates Wiki, not even in the edit summary. If Templates Wiki does not provide this template, people will find it themselves.

I think that a page at Template:Infobox, rather than a template, would be an excellent solution. We could link to all the infoboxes in question.

Though I don't think we should be too wordy with the ultimate locations of our infoboxes. Template:Infobox generic and Template:Infobox classic are good names.