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I added some information in reply to your comment on UV's talk page. [[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew Dalby]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby|disputatio]]) 09:04, 30 Maii 2016 (UTC)
== The infobox question ==
Your new infobox "Libri" faces the same problem as above: our consensus was not to introduce any more local infoboxes, and we are gradually reducing the number of older infoboxes that we have. The general problem is that they state as plain facts things that need discussion and footnoting; the added problem on a small wiki is that it is hard to maintain them and keep them up to date: the particular issue for Vicipaedia is that people come here (if they come at all) to read Latin, so we want useful information to be in our Latin text.
I think, if you really want to introduce this infobox, you should suggest it at the [[Vicipaedia:Taberna]] and see what others say. There are some issues on the two pages that I've noticed. For the ''Cantar de mio Cid'' it makes no sense to say civitas=Hispania: such a state did not exist at that time, and I don't think we know for certain under what kingdom or state the epic developed. For traditional texts such as epics there will rarely be an author, so this line will often need to be omitted. For such traditional texts even to specify a century may be to oversimplify. To define the genre of ''Don Quixote'' is not a simple matter, and this also is true of many of the most important works of world literature.
If I briefly considered introducing a Wikidata infobox for books or works of literature, I dropped the idea because Wikidata is by nature and design incapable of handling issues such as those above. There are some similar issues even for cities, states and administrative subdivisions, but at least, in those cases, a route to a solution can be mapped out.
There would be some changes of Latinitas to make in the "Libri" infobox, and the box seems to me too wide, but I'll postpone those questions because I think the ones I mention above are more important! [[Usor:Andrew Dalby|Andrew Dalby]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby|disputatio]]) 12:33, 1 Iunii 2016 (UTC)
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