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111: 131: 198: 742: 91: 121: 37: 141: 101: 151: 580:. I am a big fan. These boxes come in handy when I only have seven seconds to read an article. My absolute favorite parts of the infobox are the amazing parameters that can be included. For once, I would like to see each parameter filled in with each tiny fragment of information. So I made one about myself. 728:". I already have mine in a binder and inserted into those dandy plastic sleeves. I anticipate forming a massive collection. I can see my children at the estate sale after my death trying to unload my infobox/biography trading cards off on some clueless investor who trades in infobox 30:
The Infobox Game – Enjoy the Parameters: The Infobox Game can be enjoyed by everyone, not just those interested in water buffalo breeds, volcanic hotspots or the mysterious heteroisoform, and some day just might spawn an important facet of the financial derivatives
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ooo! ooo! Each infobox card could be ranked by the daily average pageviews. So if one infobox card was for an article with 1000 views per day, it would be worth two infobox cards with 500 page views per day. You are a genius. AND there are no copyrights! Good job
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I would collect infobox trading cards. I can already imagine a game based on the different infobox templates. Are soccer biographies strong against comic strips? "You got a Hill of Rome? Damn, those are rare. I'll trade this artificial fly card for it."
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I think infoboxes have a firm future because of our ever decreasing attention span. And it would take little effort to commercialize infoboxes by transforming them into
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Well, the images would often be copyrighted (though not always). I would love to see something like this happen, but it sounds like a lot of work :p ~
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Of course I did. I wanted to see if you were paying attention. I can't believe you expect me to knot make misteaks.
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You are probably familiar with the infoboxes for entertainers, gaming, movies, cities, et cetera et cetera.
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infoboxes for the classes of characters? (But what template do you use if an entity is a deity
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This is fun. I just now read it (cleaning out my talk page). Thanks!
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nope, too busy writing WP articles and voting on new administrators
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