User:Doncram/wtop

Note: counting items of information is a little bit subjective. I count location giving number, street, city, (state), country as 2 items (the precise address, and the city-location). Photo or logo in infobox are not counted as items, I assume that those are never dropped or changed.

Note: some of errors may be pretty small, but do detract from article quality for readers.

Purpose, in my view, MUST be to improve quality of articles for readers. Indirectly, it may be of benefit to convert one infobox type to another, if the conversion facilitates future improvements by editors (e.g. use some useful infobox feature added). But not if any info at all is lost, or any functionality is lost. And simplicity of an infobox can be functional; switching to a bigger allpurpose infobox can decrease functionality even if no displayed info is lost.

Alternatives possible:
 * For fire departments, get a report generated by bot request to run through all articles in fire department categories or having talk page Wikiproject Fire Services, identifying 0-1 whether infobox fire department used, and listing which infobox(es) are used. Advise WikiProject Fire Service to address.  First though, consult with wikiproject to explain purpose (to improve articles' quality for readers?  or merely change to get some off worklist?), get confirmation/suggestions on how bot should be defined (e.g. expand scope to more categories), ask for what else useful could be added to bot run to serve their other purposes.
 * Hmm, later I see this inquiry about potw changes to infobox fire department. "Hello! I wanted to ask about the changes you made to Infobox fire department. It dramatically changed the look of the infobox. Is this the new style? Is there a reason for this change? Just curious. Thanks!! --User:Zackmann08". There was Template talk:Infobox fire department going on already, potw not participating.  combo diff of "update" and 2 minor edits by potw.


 * For summer camps: one was switched to template organisation, another to ???.  Maybe there is benefit to readers if infoboxes are standardized to a good model with useful features some custom infoboxes don't have.  Summer camp articles not within any Wikiproject?  How otherwise linked?  Run a process to convene editors (maybe to some existing wikiproject having a compatible scope?), identify best practices infobox (maybe create one using fields from custom infoboxes).  Design a bot request, again broader scope than just summer camps using custom infobox, and for more purposes than simply checking off worklist. Have convened editors address.