Template talk:Unit of length
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I've created this infobox. Because this is essentially a prototype, I've only created one for units of length and no other units, and I've only put it in one article (inch). Any discussion, feedback, editing, etc. is welcome. Hopefully we can get it to a point where we can use it in more articles and base more templates off of it.
So, uh, any suggestions? -Branddobbe 07:30, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
There is no reason to have all of these units necessary to use the template. For example, the metre does not need long xor inaccurate equivalences to the light-year and the parsec. —Centrx→talk • 04:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Needs to be more picky and/or flexible
- Please remove the smoot from this template. (I'm not going to edit it myself because I don't understand the syntax and it's very dense!) At a slightly lower priority, please also remove fathom. Neither of these units is at all useful. I think that it's also debatable whether so many different metric units that only differ by their exponent are useful.
- And at least from the point of view of the article I came here through, Bohr radius, most of the others are pretty silly too. No one cares how many nautical miles the Bohr radius is. I think that for this template to be useful, it has to be configurable so that it only shows conversions that are reasonable for what is under discussion. Until then, I'm going to remove it from the Bohr radius page at least.
- --Strait 14:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- It also occurs to me that the smoot is not a US customary unit, so were there to be a call for it to be kept, it should be in its own section. (However, I don't think it should be retained at all.) --Strait 17:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Conversion error
Conversion to miles seems to be (very) broken. As it is, it states that 1 metre is about half a mile, and a mile is about a thousand miles (sic). Alas, I'm new and have no idea how to fix it... TeraBlight 09:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, User:SimonLyall meant to remove smoots, but instead removed the miles. The units are found after the calculations. Hopefully everything is better now.--Coolhandscot 05:14, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
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- It isn't. It still says that 1 metre is 621.3...*10^-6 miles, which isn't proper scientific notation.--Kooky (talk) 04:13, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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- That seems to be intentional, it's supposed to be Engineering notation. TeraBlight 11:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Why US customary units?
When they are also British customary / Imperial units. GraemeLeggett 09:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
