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 | This page in a nutshell: Merging similar infoboxes (or other templates) reduces the workload for template maintainers and others; and makes life easier for editors. It is not a reflection on the importance of their subjects. |
Infobox consolidation is the process of merging similar infobox templates. A number of questions arise regularly, during discussion of proposals to merge, or delete, redundant infobox templates. This is an attempt to provide a convenient record of the answers to them.
Several of the principles apply to other types of template, equally.