Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-32354545-20180202071923/@comment-168424-20180207204255

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.