User:Kameejl/Infobox analysis

This analysis is based on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (infoboxes). I have compare the infobox guidelines of the Media and journalism infoboxes to see if other guidelines have information on line breaks/comma separation (the album, song and this infobox is part of Media and journalism).

Results

Explicit use of line break (per infobox guidelines):

Infobox Film [1]

director, producer, writer, narrator, starring, music, cinematography, editing, distributor, released, language, preceded_by, followed_by

Infobox Radio Show [2]

presenter, starring, announcer, creator, writer, director, producer, executive_producer

Infobox Television [3]

show_name_2, genre, creator, developer, presenter, starring, judges, voices

Implicit use of line break (per infobox example):

Infobox Broadcast [4]

station_slogan, founded (date), callsign_meaning, former_callsigns, former_affiliations, effective_radiated_power

Infobox Newspaper [5]

price

Infobox TV channel [6]

picture format

Infobox Musical artist [7] (as for now)

Genre, associated_acts

Explicit use of comma (per infobox guidelines):

Infobox Album [8]

Director, Genre, Producer

Infobox Musical artist [9]

Years_active, labels

Implicit use of comma (per infobox example):

Infobox Musical artist [10]

Occupation

Infobox Single [11]

Format, Label

Further analysis

I also scanned through the Person infobox templates and haven't found any implicit or explicit use of commas. Except for album and musical artist no comma separator is prescribed (in all the templates I analysed).

Conclusions

Comma use in infoboxes is rare.