A number of questions arise regularly, during discussion of proposals to merge, or delete, redundant infobox templates. this is an attempt to provide a convenient record of the answers to them.
What are infoboxes?
See xxxx.
What's the best way to approach this?
When considering similar infobox templates we now know about, we need to ask what differences might justify having more than one; and consider, if we had none, and started with a clean sheet, what the template or templates we'd write would look like.
