 :Yes, I think a bit of humour in almost any reference work helps to hold the attention, though it needs to be gentle.   Humour that jumps in with both feet can distract attention from what you are trying to communicate.   Trouble is, one fellow's gently wry comment can be another fellow's belly laugh.   When people fell out of love with the reliability of the NSU Ro80 while retaining their respect for its brilliant aspects I think there was a fashion for installing the unlovely Ford 2 litre V4 in the engine bay.   Well, it fitted in the bay relatively easily.   Was that funny?   After a couple of beers yes.   After a few more beers, it should make you weep! :Thanks for sending me to the Sack of Rome entry.   I knew Charles V and his troops were wandering round Rome in the 1530s, but am now better informed on some of the background aspects concerning why and how.   (My degree was in history, but of course one only studies tiny elements in the overall picture, and history teaching is almost as nationaistic as running railways.   It is UTTERLY different according to where you are.   Maybe I need to try and check out the Sack of Rome in another language for a different perspective.) :Incidentally I've been trying cautiously to introduce 'your' design of info tables into (now) three little Auto Union / DKW articles I've translating to English.   I think wiki likes to retain 'info boxes' for all articles on the top right corners, and that makes sense to me - a bit like the other half of an 'executive summary' in a report (ie along with the intro para).   But if you overload the info box with stuff, especially if you haven't written too much prose and there are few pictures, info box takes over.   So it seems to me the job of the table is to give the info suitable for tabulation at greater length and in greater detail than the info box.  And there is then a larger task to try and balance the two - plus the pictures and the prose section, so really you are trying to balance the four - without excessive overlap but also without leaving out crucial bits for folks who will look ONLY at the info box OR the table OR the prosey bit.   I suppose at a detailed level I'm still working through how that balance should work in my own mind, and it will be a variable balance according to the extent and nature of available information.   Anyhow, if you notice anything that can be improved (or, indeed, corrected!) in the way I've done the table on, for instance, the Auto Union 1000 (or predecessors) English wiki entry, do please insert the improvements if you have the time. Regards   