Help talk:Infobox

This issue highlights one problem I have with Wikipedia. I like tha table aspect, but when I opened up the editor, and took a look at the source code, I almost had a heart attack. Wikipedia and its siblings are a great idea, but is it necessary to return to the early days of programming in order to achieve a good idea? I am interested enough in the success of this system of projects to tell you that you need to have your programmers go back to the drawing board, and move the programming along a few generations more to make a real viable product, but I am sure that a lot of potential contributors take one look at the amount of drudge work necessary to produce something as simple as a table or info box, throw up their hands as they have absolutely no interest in - or time for - either learning a programming language, or using a programming language. The standard in the computer industry, and here on the Internet these days is the modern user-friendly text editor that has all or most of the bells and whistles of Word Processing programs. Even Microsoft Word has a reasonably good table editor that lets you edit the table once it is made. I am sure that a lot of potential contributors take one look, and run screaming to another project. You guys have got to start thinking of us contributors who are not programmers, and have no wish to be programmers. We are writers, not programmers.

CORNELIUSSEON

Full text box
I personally dislike the full text box as it is HUGE. I generally contribute in poetry areas and the lines are supposed to break in a certisn pattern which this messes up most of the time. So I always use and  instead.--BirgitteSB 18:22, 27 January 2006 (UTC)