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Metadata

If the {{infobox organization}} template is used, it produces the following metadata as far as I can see:

  • class="vcard" for the table as a whole
  • class="org" for 'Renaissance Theatre Company'
  • class="dtstart" for '1987'
  • class="dtend" for '1994'

All of these are useful pieces of information that then become immediately available to re-users by standardised means of scraping data.

I don't think that the small infobox is aesthetically unappealing in this case, although I accept that others may disagree. Nevertheless, at present, use of the infobox is far-and-away the most convenient means that editors have to make the metadata available, and I suggest that the advantage of its retention here outweighs the likely disadvantages that I can see (repetition of info and aesthetics, I assume). I'd be happy to discuss these issues here if there is a case to be made for removal of the infobox. --RexxS (talk) 19:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Are the date-related metadata also emitted by {{Start date}} and {{End date}}, or no? Either way, I would disagree that the value of metadata would outweigh the redundancy to the first two sentences. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:02, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
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