Talk:Jean Walton

Infobox
Thanks so much for your contributions, @RogueScholar! I'm very impressed you managed to find Walton's full middle name, which had eluded me (given that it's "Brosius," I can't blame her for not using it much haha). I've added those to the body.

On the matter of whether or not to include an infobox, I'm not sure if you're aware, but that was extremely controversial for many years, becoming known as the "infobox wars," and it's under discretionary sanctions for that reason. There are various arguments for and against, including the WP:DISINFOBOX essay I linked in my initial revert of the talk banners here, but to speak to your particular concern about feeding Google/voice assistants, that can be accomplished through Wikidata; I've ensured that Walton's entry now includes everything in the infobox. Beyond that, though, I don't feel that an infobox is a good fit for this article, since given the nature of Walton's work, it's better described narratively, whereas the infobox makes it look like she was mainly a mathematician by giving undue weight to e.g. her theses. It also extends nearly the entire length of the article, displacing the quote/images, something that will get worse once the table of contents is no longer at the top in New Vector. For those reasons, I'm going to restore the status quo without an infobox. I hope that helps explain my reasoning, and thanks again for improving the article. Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 00:42, 24 August 2022 (UTC)