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Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I will consider points 2 and 3 separately, in case there is more discussion of the points. 2. Color: I think you're saying that the color makes it easier to see which number goes with which label. It's true that the numbers are pretty far from the labels. However,
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I can imagine many ways it might be used without breaking sitewide consistency (I like that too), but the param exists in the base infobox to allow for edge cases, and I don't know of it being a problem. My discovery of the param came when looking for a default method of floating one on
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to the left since the right-floated images have pushed it down a bit, and I think the images shouldn't be shoved around. However, since I'm currently working on fleshing out the article, the issue has been significantly reduced; not to say it wouldn't still be nice-to-have.
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and should be reduced - currently images are 450px wide, while the recommended size is no more than 400px. Not to mention that the images themselves can be placed on the left (which should not be the case with infoboxes in most cases).
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Oh right, my bad. But they still look bigger than they should in my opinion (plus it's recommended to set the size via "upright" parameter). So it's not really a problem with the infobox, but with the way how images are formatted.
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Using images with this broke at some point in the past. I've recoded the image handling, per the request of someone trying to use this template and getting strange results back, and it should work exactly as intended now.
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What articles do you want to use this for? I'm inclined to think that absolutely every infobox should have the same appearance without custom formatting, and therefore this parameter is unneeded.
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This infobox definitely doesn't need to be placed on the left-side to solve such problems - that's exactly what messes up the standardised look. Speaking of this article, image sizes are
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I have cleared the errors in the parameters in the parameters and there are about 20 templates left with the "Remix" parameter filled in:
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That's actually an excellent solution. I was just about to code something of my own in my user sandbox but I think your latest version of
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Your contributions would be highly welcome! Cheers!
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