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Role of infobox

Yopie just reverted my edit the article to reinstate the infobox with the comment "It was government in exile, with citizens and army, so they used state symbols etc" and I thought it would be worth taking this to talk for further discussion.

Now, my argument is fairly brief - a government is not a country, so an old government (even a government in exile) is not a "former country" (see Template:Infobox Former Country, the template in question). I also think that Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes makes a very good case for the fact that an infobox is unnecessary. Currently, the infobox basically mirrors that in the Czechoslovakia article, and therefore does not achieve objective #1 in the MOS: "summariz[ing] key features of the page's subject". In fact, the infobox is currently misleading (if not WP:POV) because it intimates that the government in exile actually controlled territory in Czechoslovakia and exaggerates its legitimacy as the literal continuation of the pre-invasion country.

Ultimately, pages do not need infoboxes. These should be added only if they help our readers and I really don't believe that they do in this case.—Brigade Piron (talk) 15:30, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 {{u|Yopie}} just reverted my edit the article to reinstate the infobox with the comment "It was government in exile, with citizens and army, so they used state symbols etc" and I thought it would be worth taking this to talk for further discussion.
-Now, my argument is fairly brief - a government is ''not'' a country, so an old government (even a government in exile) is not a "former country" (see [[Template:Former Country]], the template in question). I also think that [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes]] makes a very good case for the fact that an infobox is unnecessary. Currently, the infobox basically mirrors that in the [[Czechoslovakia]] article, and therefore does not achieve objective #1 in the MOS: "summariz[ing] key features of the page's subject". In fact, the infobox is currently misleading (if not [[WP:POV]]) because it intimates that the government in exile actually controlled territory in Czechslovakia and exaggerates its legitimacy as the continuation of the pre-invasion country.
+Now, my argument is fairly brief - a government is ''not'' a country, so an old government (even a government in exile) is not a "former country" (see [[Template:Infobox Former Country]], the template in question). I also think that [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes]] makes a very good case for the fact that an infobox is unnecessary. Currently, the infobox basically mirrors that in the [[Czechoslovakia]] article, and therefore does not achieve objective #1 in the MOS: "summariz[ing] key features of the page's subject". In fact, the infobox is currently misleading (if not [[WP:POV]]) because it intimates that the government in exile actually controlled territory in Czechoslovakia and exaggerates its legitimacy as the ''literal'' continuation of the pre-invasion country.
 Ultimately, pages do not ''need'' infoboxes. These should be added only if they help our readers and I ''really'' don't believe that they do in this case.—''[[User:Brigade Piron|Brigade Piron]]'' ([[User talk:Brigade Piron|talk]]) 15:30, 2 May 2016 (UTC)