Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-20037936-20130405054954/@comment-10688548-20130405062333

The practice of using a bare  on articles was always a tad poor: it was best to have separate   and   and  s rather than using the bare-minimal   and specifying both the right and left parameters each time. The new infobox, it seems, is not intended to be used in articles. Rather, it is a "meta template" as some wikis have called it... It is used to make other templates.

What you're supposed to do is copy the template's code to "Template:Infobox character" or whatever suits your needs, then change "First" and "Second" to whatever is appropriate for that classification. Then you can freely use that template on articles.

This is my interpretation: it can be a tad mystifying for newbies.