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 fellows gently wry comment can be another fellows belly laugh   When people fell out of love with the reliability of the NSU Ro while retaining their respect for its brilliant aspects I think there was a fashion for installing the unlovely Ford  litre V 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 s 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 Ive been trying cautiously to introduce your design of info tables into now three little Auto Union  DKW articles Ive 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 havent 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 Im 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 Ive done the table on for instance the Auto Union  or predecessors English wiki entry do please insert the improvements if you have the time Regards