Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3279282-20160423171719/@comment-1251315-20160424161830

Seelentau wrote: I don't want to banish it, it's just redundant to have the exact same information at exact the same height. For example, we don't state the height and weight of a character in his appearance section, do we? We have the infobox for that. The infobox is meant to be used as a factsheet, things that can't be written into a sentence in the article body: ie statistics, information from the databook etc. Hence why things like heights, ranks, teams etc are all mentioned there, since it would be a pretty short sentence in the main body.

The infobox was not made for the exclusive purpose of just removing text out of the article body, simply on the basis of "read the infobox if you care for that information". That's not really what it was meant for.