User:Kameejl/Infobox analysis
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This analysis is based on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes). I have compare the infobox guidelines of the Media and journalism infoboxes to see if other guidelines have information on line breaks/comma separation (the album, song and this infobox is part of Media and journalism).
[edit] Results
Explicit use of line break (per infobox guidelines):
- Infobox Film [1]
- director, producer, writer, narrator, starring, music, cinematography, editing, distributor, released, language, preceded_by, followed_by
- Infobox Radio Show [2]
- presenter, starring, announcer, creator, writer, director, producer, executive_producer
- Infobox Television [3]
- show_name_2, genre, creator, developer, presenter, starring, judges, voices
Implicit use of line break (per infobox example):
- Infobox Broadcast [4]
- station_slogan, founded (date), callsign_meaning, former_callsigns, former_affiliations, effective_radiated_power
- Infobox Newspaper [5]
- price
- Infobox TV channel [6]
- picture format
- Infobox Musical artist [7] (as for now)
- Genre, associated_acts
Explicit use of comma (per infobox guidelines):
- Infobox Album [8]
- Director, Genre, Producer
- Infobox Musical artist [9]
- Years_active, labels
Implicit use of comma (per infobox example):
- Infobox Musical artist [10]
- Occupation
- Infobox Single [11]
- Format, Label
[edit] Further analysis
I also scanned through the Person infobox templates and haven't found any implicit or explicit use of commas. Except for album and musical artist no comma separator is prescribed (in all the templates I analysed).
[edit] Conclusions
Comma use in infoboxes is rare.
