User talk:Pipian/My Sandbox

Thoughts
Great work on this Pipian! I had wanted to update the instrument infobox for some time, but you did pretty much everything I wanted to. My remaining suggestions: Tuf-Kat (talk) 21:03, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Make the inventor field optional, as many instruments do not have a known inventor
 * Remove the developed and "related instruments" fields entirely, as I think these are too difficult to describe neutrally and briefly, and just aren't suited for an infobox
 * Add an optional field for Chinese/Japanese traditional classification: metal (bells), stone (stone chimes), earth (ocarina), leather (drums), silk (stringed instruments), wood (double reed wind instruments), gourd (sho, or mouth organ), and bamboo (flute) and one for the traditional Indian classification: non-membranous percussion (ghan), membranous percussion (avanaddh), wind blown (sushir), plucked string (tat), bowed string (vitat)
 * Combine the builders, musicians and "More articles" fields into an "Other" area, as they don't seem likely to ever be expanded beyond a link to list of X players. Make the "Other" section optional.
 * Add an optional field for at least one sound sample - ideally, each article should probably have one basic one (playing the scale or a simple rhythm) and one that's a freely-licensed full song based around the instrument, or something like that.

Thank you. I agree that a sound sample would be good, especially for blind people; Xun (instrument) sort of kludges one. HLHJ (talk) 22:29, 15 January 2017 (UTC)