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User:Kameejl/Infobox analysis

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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

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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

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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

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Comma use in infoboxes is rare.