Template talk:Infobox Missile
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[edit] Weight/Mass
Why change the "mass" to "weight" ? Mass is technically more correct (mass is expressed in kilogrammes and weight in Newtons), and I very much doubt that having "mass" instead of "weight" makes the entry cryptic and ununderstandable to the common reader, does it ? Rama 17:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
- Just sticking to everyday language - after all we can only figure out the mass of it by weighing it? GraemeLeggett 16:24, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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- By oscillations. Common method used in spacecrafts.
- As for everyday language, it's defendable if the technical word is really uncommon, but in this case, I see no reason to chance from the correct word to the inexact one. Rama 16:38, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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- I note that commonly we talk about the take-off weight of aircraft GraemeLeggett 20:38, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Capacity
Wouldn't it make sense to include the missle's payload capacity in this infobox? --Pifactorial 06:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
- that would be the meaning of the entry warhead would it not, its the way it has been filled in for both this and {{Weapon-missile}} templates. GraemeLeggett 08:42, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Okay, I was thinking specifically of the Taepodong-2 article, where "Warhead" is listed only as "Conventional & non-conventional; Satellite", with no further information. The article mentions that the capacity is "less than 500 kg" at maximum range, and "700–1000 kg" at short range. How would this data be properly incorperated into the userbox? --Pifactorial 17:21, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
- how you just wrote it.GraemeLeggett 19:35, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, I was thinking specifically of the Taepodong-2 article, where "Warhead" is listed only as "Conventional & non-conventional; Satellite", with no further information. The article mentions that the capacity is "less than 500 kg" at maximum range, and "700–1000 kg" at short range. How would this data be properly incorperated into the userbox? --Pifactorial 17:21, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Layout is broken and unreadable
In Safari, all of the content of this template, including the green bars, projects outside of it on the right side, beyond the bounds of the browser window. The windows does not get a horizontal scrollbar though, so about 1/4 of the content is completely impossible to read.
Oddly, the empty infobox on the template page looks fine. —Michael Z. 2006-09-10 14:48 Z
- I believe I have fixed this, but I don't understand all of the code in the template. It looks fine now in the dozen articles I have checked. The previous template code looked way too complicated, with a mix of wikitable and HTML table tags, and for some reason three columns used for a two-column table.—Michael Z. 2006-09-10 15:46 Z
Actually, this template is no longer officially sanctioned. Within the next year or two, we will be converting missile articles to use {{missile specifications}} and {{Infobox Aircraft}}. See WP:LV. Ingoolemo talk 17:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
