:As mentioned, an FA need not have an ib at all. It is evident that a great many articles have been promoted to FA with minimal ibs. Every ib field except "name" is optional, and sometimes less is more. Infoboxes in biographical articles tend to mislead, as not all human activity can be reduced to database entries—for example, "years active" often gives a false precision (see Harold Lloyd and Louis Quinn for typical examples). A stomach hemmorhage is not one of the most notable things about W. C. Fields; that would be one reason to exclude it. The idea is not novel; here are some diffs demonstrating conscious exclusion from non-FA articles: , , .