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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Pol430 talk to me 18:44, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Steven Walling • talk 06:34, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

African American Museum of Iowa HTML Cleanup

Hi there,

I recently saw your cleanup suggestion that I need to convert my raw HTML content to Wiki syntax / infoboxes on the African American Museum of Iowa article I recently created. Could you give me an example of an area of problematic code? Sorry, I'm a new wikipedia user and not quite sure what you are getting at.

Thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by Griot2012 (talk • contribs) 18:05, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hiyas there Griot2012,

There is actually only one section in the article that has some HTML issues, and that is the infobox which is displayed in the article. The infobox is build using HTML, rather then using a template which uses wiki markup. Templates have various advantages over using straight HTML:

Templates tend to be shorter, and don't contain style information, which means that they are easier to read and maintain when editing an article.
Templates are dynamically generated by Wikipedia. This means that, if a template layput is updated, all article's using the layout are updated as well. (This is not possible when using a HTML variety)
Templates can have several functionalities build in, such as categories, which is often convenient.

Ergo - Infobox templates are great, and should be used over HTML in virtually all cases :). What you will likely want to do, is replacing the HTML variant in the article with a template version, such as Template:Infobox museum. For an example on how the infobox is used, have a look at Musée du Louvre, where it is actually used. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 10:33, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Excirial,

My only problem with implementing the template is that it takes away some of the flexibility of the original html infobox. The AAMI is a non-profit, as well as a museum, and I think that including the mission statement of the organization is important. The Template:Infobox museum has no option to include a mission statement, and I have no ability to edit the fields to include it. Additionally, I'm not convinced that I want the layout of the infobox I'm using to be tied to any future updates made to the infobox template.

I would design my own template, but the article listing proposed infobox templates seems to be out of date and/or not maintained. Thoughts? Griot2012