Forum:Infobox: Why is there gibberish at the top of the page instead of the infobox?

Are you seeing gibberish at the top of page instead of a properly-formed infobox? It's a problem that's going to effect less than 1% of all infoboxes, but it will still happen.

Basically, the bot has to be programmed so as to find certain patterns. But because people put infoboxes on pages in a variety of different ways, there's a slim possibility that the bot run might take off the opening or, more likely, closing curly braces.

If you see such a page, feel free to open it up and re-add the closing curlies. When you do, though, make sure you put the curlies on a line by themselves, so that the problem won't recur.

This error happens only when someone has put either the entire infobox, or a the concluding variables, on the same line as the closing curlies. Likely code will look something like this: {{Infobox Individual|name=Whatever|appearances=Whatever|home planet=whatever Because the infobox isn't closed it'll display like this:
 * {{Infobox Individual|name=Whatever|appearances=Whatever|home planet=whatever
 * Whatever was a person from the planet whatever....

Correct the problem by doing this: {{Infobox Individual|name=Whatever|appearances=Whatever|home planet=whatever }} By simply adding the curly braces, the page will suddenly snap back into shape, like this:

{{Infobox Individual|name=Whatever|appearances=Whatever|home planet=whatever }} Whatever was a person from the planet whatever....

{{user:CzechOut/Sig}} 20:36: Tue 13 Mar 2012