Forum:Infobox improvements

Hi, guys. I'd like to suggest a few ways to improve the infoboxes on this site. Firstly I like to suggest that they be divided up into the following fields. The reasons for this is, mainly to create an infobox that serves the article better by acting as kinda like a fact file. Secondly I think the Behind the scenes section should be removed from the Template. Mainly, as per Wookieepedia, because including fields such as portrayer contradicts the in universe perspective of the wiki.

Biographical information

 * Date and place of birth=
 * Date and place of death=
 * Family members= (Notice that Wookieepedia dosn't have a family members field? Not quite sure why, but I think it's to avoid the great long lists of in-laws etc, that we have here)
 * Blood status= (Not sure if this should go in physical description or not?)

Physical description

 * Gender=
 * Height=
 * Hair color=
 * Eye color=
 * Skin color=

Magical characteristics

 * Animagus form=
 * Boggart form=
 * Patronus form=
 * Wand statistics=

Affilation

 * Affiliated organizations, goverments etc=

I think this is a much better way of organizing the information in the infoboxes, and prevents them from becoming cluttered by removing non essential fields. Let me know what you guys think, I've also got some ideas on how to make the templates more asthetically pleasing.  Jayce Carver  Talkundefined 17:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Also I think it might be beneficial to have less infoboxes, or to have more general ones that would apply to more characters. For example, we have Beauxbatons and Durmstrang infoboxes, yet there are only two or three articles that require these, so it's kinda wasted. I think having ones for the major factions for the majority of characters, and having a basic one for individuals who can't be placed. So it'd be "Order of the Phoenix character infobox", "Death Eater character infobox", "Ministry of Magic character infobox", "Muggle character infobox". That classifies nearly all the characters in the series, rather than having Gryffindor Slytherin Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw for characters who could all share a single template like Hogwarts student infobox.  Jayce Carver  Talkundefined 15:43, 1 November 2008 (UTC)