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I seem to remember you saying that you had a job for Lightbot. What was it? Lightmouse (talk) 22:42, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Is there a way to isolate the converted value and use it separately?
what I mean is instead of 3.5 kilograms (7.7 lb), write the 7.7lb. Sumanch (talk) 23:44, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
You may wish to comment on this discussion at MOSNUM. Thunderbird2 (talk) 18:17, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, see WP:BOLDTITLE. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 17:59, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Is it verbatim or is it not? Strictly it's not but ... we'd be getting into the pedantic discussing that. What I'd prefer to discuss is the new wording which got us here. This is not the place. JIMp talk·cont 18:31, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
This is what I mean by "new wording". I don't see this change discussed at all on "Wikipedia talk:Lead section". Perhaps it's time it should be. JIMp talk·cont 09:26, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Template_talk:Convert#Something_seems_to_be_wonky.
Can you answer that?. Thanks Merry Christmas —MJCdetroit (yak) 02:43, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Jimp,
I wish you and your family all the best this Christmas and that you also have a Happy and safe new year.
Thankyou for all your contributions to Wikipedia this year and I look forward to seeing many more from you in the future.
Your work around Wikipedia has not gone un-noticed, this notice is testimony to that
Please feel free to drop by my talkpage any time to say Hi, as I will probably say Hi back :)
All the Best. «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l» (talk)
{{convert|10|e6ha|lk=on}}--->10 million hectares (25×10 6 acres)
Something seems messed up there. Ya mind taken a look when you can? Thanks, —MJCdetroit (yak) 03:56, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for dropping me a line, Jimp. I assume precision used trick techniques and math to do its thing. I can see how it could benefit from a character-counting parser function. I can not see, however, how {val} could avail itself of {precision}. The real person to ask would be SkyLined, he wrote it.
I wish you would post something more helpful on WT:MOSNUM. Perhaps you could copy some of your post from my talk page about how the parser function would be helpful for other templates. Your latest post helps to undermine the imperative for any developers to work on the parser function. Greg L (talk) 19:28, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
It's not about pronunciation. The orthography of providing syllable stress is well-established, and it never, ever involves respelling, because it's not about pronunciation (other than, of course, the syllable stress). This was included in a number of botanical articles because the pronunciation of many scientific names varies regionally (Brassica is an exception), yet syllable stress is controlled by classical rules and by the etymology of the word. There is no need for the syllable stress if a genus has a consistent pronunciation, so if you don't like not being able to respell it, please just eliminate it, since the IPA suffices.--Curtis Clark (talk) 15:17, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
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Since your editing tonight, can I safely assume that you're miles away from the fires? I seen the news story about the fires and thought of you. I hope and pray that all is well down there and that it gets better. —MJCdetroit (yak) 01:15, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Jimp, I'm considering putting together a template, {{endurance}}, to convert ship endurance figures. Typically endurance is given in the form [distance] @ [speed]. Right now, using {{convert}} makes the format less than ideal:
as opposed to the more readable:
Is there any way to use {{convert}} to provide only the converted result? So that, for example, putting in {{convert|1250|nmi|km}}
would output only 2,320 km
. If that were possible, it would be a pretty straightforward template to write. — Bellhalla (talk) 15:52, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
You could use disp=output number only
(don't use lk
, abbr
, adj
or sing
). Note that it's not yet operational for all units. JIMp talk·cont 11:34, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
... or use disp=output only
with abbr=on
(don't use lk
, adj
or sing
they don't work yet).
convert|1250|nmi|km|disp=output only|abbr=on
}} → "2,320 km"convert|12|kn|km/h|disp=output only|abbr=on
}} → "22 km/h"JIMp talk·cont 11:56, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
convert|1250|km|nmi|disp=output only|abbr=on
}} → "670 nmi"convert|12|km/h|knots|disp=output only|abbr=on
}} → "6.5 kn"Hello, I'm looking to do 15 mpgalUS[convert: unknown unit] etc (3 way). Peter Horn User talk 22:23, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
Cambridge lists the fancy version as an "also". JIMp talk·cont 12:07, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I see you have just changed about twenty of my edits. I have had a look at the two templates and cannot see any instruction/guidance that one is preferred over the other. Do you know which is the 'correct' one to use? If it is convert, then I will change (future) edits to that. If you are going to convert to convert there will be a few hundred of mine to change. [Having reread that it sounds bad - I have not taken offence - I just want to know which one I should be using]. I have added this to my watchlist so reply here. Twiceuponatime (talk) 09:49, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
Fair enough. I will change to convert. In my case, I was quite happy with {unit mile} - it was the only one I use(d). Note that I have used it in about 300 articles - all settlements in Northumberland. Twiceuponatime (talk) 09:04, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
You responded to one of my early requests for help concerning {{convert}}. I'm hoping you can help. Please see Template talk:Convert#Trouble on a transcluded page 3.0. I have identified a specific example. --droll [chat] 21:13, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
{{Documentation}}
and so does MSGJ. I started a thread at Template talk:Documentation#Bug so watch that if you are interested. --droll [chat] 09:28, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
It appears {{convert}} is once again the likely candidate for the bad behavior. Please see Template_talk:Convert#3.0. --droll [chat] 22:46, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
I'm now wondering if the error could be in {{{1}}} in {{rnd}}. See Subtemplates of Template Rnd. If it is undefined then the behavior would be explained. It would be interesting to trap that case in {{rnd}} and display an error message. Something like:
{{#if:{{{1}|}}}|{{formatnum:{{rnd/a|{{#expr:({{{1}}})round({{{2}}})}}|{{{2}}}}}}}|<strong class="error">UNDEFINED VALUE IN <nowiki>{{rnd}}<nowiki></strong>}}
I'm hoping this would show up as an error message or at least change the error message when one of the examples is purged. You know way more than I do about this stuff. This is just a wild idea. If this is too wild let me know so that I can learn something. --droll [chat] 06:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
I award you this barnstar of Diligence for your continued work on the conversion template. --droll [chat] 19:19, 17 March 2009 (UTC) |
I was not aware of the Wikipedia:Logical quotation convention, but in reaction to your revert I looked in the manual of style, and sure enough found it. I thought pretty much all scholarly writing used the older convention, but I guess I'm just out of date. I'll try to keep this in mind and change my ways; odd that nobody called me on this before. Dicklyon (talk) 15:18, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
I noticed you had tagged Template:Infobox HAR for speedy deletion. Please remember that templates are transcluded often and thus all such tags should be put within <nocinclude>-tags to avoid being transcluded with the template. Regards SoWhy 14:17, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
I need help with a conversion template that I just created.
The requirements were that the template display units in m3, impgal, and cuyd. The template I created works fine, except that it says "US cu yd" instead of "cu yd." This is because I created the template by modifying the m3/impgal/usgal template to match the m3/cuyd template, but I admit that I do not know exactly what I am doing.
Removing the letters "US" cause a problem because it is looking for a template called Template:Convert/LoffAonSoffUSre and if I remove those letters, it starts looking for the non-existent Template:Convert/LoffAonSoffre.
Should I create Template:Convert/LoffAonSoffre just so that I can change "US cu yd" to "cu yd," or would that just be a work around?
Please let me know the proper way to make the change from "US cu yd" to "cu yd," or, if you have enough time, feel free to do it yourself.
Thank-you for all of your efforts in conversion templates and elsewhere. I look forward to becoming more familiar with how these templates work.VegKilla (talk) 18:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Could you address the issue I raised at template talk:convert? Thanks. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:26, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for participating in the talk at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(capital_letters)#Holy_Spirit.3F. You asked the thread, "can you even point to an instance of these words used on WP in a non-proper-noun way?"
Yes, in the article section Holy_Spirit#Non-Trinitarian_views.
The section intro and subsections show that most nontrinitarian Christians do not believe the "holy spirit" to be a person (that is, a proper noun). They believe it's a mindset or an impersonal force (like numina). Yet, even when the term is not used as a proper noun in the article, the term is forcibly capitalized by editors apparently more interested in trinitarianism than grammar.
There is actually a theologically-based contention at the article Holy Spirit about this very topic. I don't mind capitalizing Holy Spirit, but I still believe that capitalizing non-proper-noun instances of the term to be unscholarly and ungrammatical. You may be interested in sharing your thoughts there at Talk:Holy_Spirit#Capitalization_II.
--AuthorityTam (talk) 16:19, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
Hey Jimp,
I am not sure if you missed the point. We accept that fractions don't always display beautifully (it's great when they do), but this produces different results depending on its input.
Thanks as always for your great work. SimonTrew (talk) 14:30, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Less than pretty display is the lesser of the two problems. The wrong answers is due to the fact that only the fractional part is being multiplied by the conversion factor. JIMp talk·cont 16:52, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Template:Convert/Maintenance/and has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Jacob.jose (talk) 21:05, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Template:Convert/Maintenance/outputs/U.S. has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Jacob.jose (talk) 21:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Template:Convert/Maintenance/outputs/US has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Jacob.jose (talk) 21:14, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
As the editor with the most contributions to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 65, you might be able to answer the question asked at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Archives of this page. Here is a permanent link. -- Wavelength (talk) 05:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, you might not have come across this unit before, but it is a non-SI unit that is the most commonly-applied measure of distance in structural biology. I therefore reverted your removal of this from the ribosome page. Tim Vickers (talk) 15:26, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I've noticed that amongst your changes to this article, you changed a Greek letter nu in the text to a v. However, in the equation on the page, nu is used, and so for consistency I shall change it back to a nu. I feel confident doing this, since all mentions of the equation I have come across at university use nu rather than v. Brammers (talk) 18:19, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
No worries, they do look very much alike. I do have another thing bothering me about the equation, though, regarding the coeffecients, which I'm thinking of bringing up on the talk page. JIMp talk·cont 17:36, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
You broke the electron mass BTW, it displays as a list of zeros. There might be others. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 13:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
I appreciate the work you've done fixing them up, but you had an off-by-one error, causing February 28 to use the Mar-Dec subtemplate. I've fixed it.
I believe those templates should be protected, but I want to make sure we've got it right, first. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:10, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
User:Nergaal has reverted your changes to the chem template because it broke stuff like {{chem|Xe||F|2}}, which is used in older articles, and which worked correctly with the original version of the template. As I've already edited several articles to use the new superscript feature you added, it would be really nice if you could somehow make the new template ignore empty arguments. Please see Template talk:chem. Thanks!—Tetracube (talk) 15:50, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Jim,
Please see my post at Template talk:Convert#Dual pressure. Peter Horn User talk 01:26, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Jimp, I just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you do at MOS and MOSNUM and {{convert}}
. For at least one editor it is very much appreciated.
I wonder if on {{convert}}
i could work on historical exchange rates, I am thinking having looked at £sd (which is pisspoor and needs a lot adding to it) and other things that e.g a conversion from the Gold Standard could be useful. Obviously for floating curency past or present it is useless or at least unfeasible.
I can work on doing this, with some guidance. The first is always the most tricky. Sandboxing would be a good idea I think. I only want to be an article editor not spend too much time on admin or templates, but,
I remain sir as always your humble and obedient servant SimonTrew (talk) 00:32, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
(which is what the taxman used to put when asking me for more of my money)
Template:1632 series historical character has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 19:28, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm a bit baffled by your two edits of the article Heroides; the net effect seems to be a replacement of {{Sp2}} with — why? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:14, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Nice addition to {{Infobox Protected area}}. Thanks. --droll [chat] 04:25, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
I believe 'Unit m', 'Unit metre', and 'Unit km' are now unused in article space. Plastikspork (talk) 05:45, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
I created a Template:Precision/sandbox and Template:Precision/testcases to check your requested changes. Could you check to make sure everything looks good and I will go ahead and make the change. In particular, there appear to be some changes to a couple of the cases listed in the documentation. Thanks! Plastikspork (talk) 00:44, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Just to make sure, you want to replace the *entire* existing Precision template code with just "{{precision/a|{{{1}}}|{{#titleparts:{{{1}}}|1|2}}}}" plus the noinclude stuff? — Huntster (t • @ • c) 00:46, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
Jimp, please see my posts at Template talk:Convert#Route miles conversion. Would such a conversion be possible? Peter Horn User talk 15:38, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I have recently encountered the bug in {{convert}} that throws up an expression error message on a transluded documentation page, but not on the actual documentation itself. I've asked MSGJ about this and he directed me to this discussion. Given your past experience with this issue, I was wondering what (if any) conclusions you reached?
Discussion is at User talk:MSGJ#Weird behaviour if you can provide any input. Thanks in advance! PC78 (talk) 11:15, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I need a template for converting $/square foot to $/square meter. Can {{convert}} be adapted for such a purpose? I need such a template at Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) and I doubt this is the only place it could be useful on wikipedia.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 21:04, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for merging the Miles per gallon gasoline equivalent articles. Template:MPGe was also marked as a template for deletion and I'm wondering why and thank you for the discussion on that too. sn‾uǝɹɹɐʍɯ (talk) 04:28, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
You stuck a tag on the article way back in April. There doesn't seem to be anything on the talk page that justifies the tag.
Keith Henson (talk) 17:44, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi- I see you made a recent edit to the page but left the POV tag and didn't comment on the talk page. If the article seems OK to you now, please remove the tag. Thanks. Robsavoie (talk) 17:04, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
You may be interested to know that the question of expanding the use of the YYYY-MM-DD format has arisen once again, at --VMAsNYC (talk) 09:51, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
What are your thoughts on this? 「ɠu¹ɖяy」¤ • ¢ 03:18, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Hey Jimp,
Could you perhaps mentor me a bit for a little while as I get working with templates?
I would like to thank you once again for your fantastic work at {{convert}}
. I use it all the time and it is a little tricky but worthwhile doing so, I think. If nothing else it saves me typing .
I have been doing a little work at Category:Hungary geographical name conversion templates which I am vaguely pleased on. These are simple conversions from Hungarian Wikipedia names (i.e. in Hungarian) to English ones. The basic idea is you can copy-paste the Hungarian infobox and it will magically work in the English wikipedia (see for example Acsa, not a great article, but translated and has a nice infobox that was literally a copy paste job).
Now I have about ten of these and I realise I got the naming convention wrong, really, specifically I should like to drop "name" but should perhaps do a kind "from" "to" convention. This is setting aside the issue of whether templates should be used for language conversion (they can't be I assure you, the template language is a regular experssion language and you need at least a context-free grammar to get close, but I can handle limited cases where there are only seventeen counties and six regions etc)
These are a subcategory of [[Category:Conversion templates]]
as [[Category:Hungary geographical name conversion templates]]
.
The advice I need is basically:
{{hu-convert|HU21|NUTS 2|name}}
and it puts out "Central Transdanubia". I know how to do this technically, with switches and stuff, and am collecting templates together to convert from regions and counties and so forth and a bit from Hungarian to English in limited, well-bound cases so that you can just paste the Hungarian in and it just worksTM. I will reorganise the template names to make this better to do this, but your advice on to what to rename them would be very helpful.Thank you, sincerely, best wishes, SimonTrew (talk) 23:57, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Are you going to update the torque conversions, since we have a consensus on the issue (and have had a consensus for over a week)? I would do it myself, except the code looks a little too complex for me. Thanks. 「ɠu¹ɖяy」¤ • ¢ 15:26, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello Jimp, Please see Template talk:Convert#Yet another 3 way conversion & Template talk:Convert#More oddball flow rates. Peter Horn User talk 19:24, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello, Jimp. Wikid77 here. I didn't mean to further frustrate all your conversion problems. I'm trying to resolve the deadlock where Convert is being tasked to be both an engineer's tool and a general-public calculator. I do understand your frustrations in trying retain 100 as meaning "50-149", so I've added the following FAQs into Template_talk:Convert (repeated here for speed outside that huge talk-page):
There are several common questions:
That is a first attempt to help people see the no-win situation with trying to force Convert to "default" to everyone's personal preferences. Again, I'm sorry if the discussion has frustrated your other efforts. -Wikid77 (talk) 21:40, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
FYI, Template talk:Convert/LonAonDbSon. Best regards. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:48, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
I have nominated Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. \ Backslash Forwardslash / (talk) 21:45, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
FYI, Template talk:Convert/Dual/LinAoffDbSoffImp, Template talk:Convert/Dual/LinAoffDbSonImp, Template talk:Convert/Dual/LoffAoffDbSoffImp, Template talk:Convert/Dual/LoffAoffDbSonImp, Template talk:Convert/Dual/LonAoffDbSoffImp, Template talk:Convert/Dual/LoutAoffDbSoffImp, Template talk:Convert/Dual/LoutAoffDbSonImp. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:12, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Jimp, a debate is currently in progress on the EU talk page concerning the use of either ‘Republic of Ireland’ or ‘Ireland’ to identify the state. As the page is clearly political and involves both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, I am arguing for ‘Republic of Ireland’ for reasons of clarity and common sense. However, all my arguments are falling on intransigently deaf ears. Perhaps you would care to take a look? The Spoorne (talk) 20:47, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hey Jimp, just a friendly reminder that if you ever need something changed within the Convert template (or other protected templates) you're more than welcome to leave a note on my talk page and I'll get it done as soon as I see it. — Huntster (t @ c) 11:13, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Jimp– You can probably figure out what is going wrong faster than I can, but currently there is something strange going on. It may be due to some recent changes?
If the strange behavior is still happening, then the last two will give red "expression errors". Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:43, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hey, it's a bit of an old debate now, but is it possible to jump start the discussion on Talk:Memphis about redirects? Night w (talk) 11:02, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Fixed. Thanks for the heads-up. — Huntster (t @ c) 08:47, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Also, I need to request something, so I'm more capable of making independent edits. Would you please make a list of parameters used in the unit subtemplates and explain what function each field serves? I know that b= is the base conversion factor, u= is the abbreviation, n= is the written out form, t= is the wikilink, o= is the default output (?), but I'm especially stumped as to what j= does. Any help would be appreciated. — Huntster (t @ c) 05:15, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
05-March-2010: Jimp, it's Wikid77 here. After requesting many edit-protected updates, I can see why the restrictions have frustrated your improvements to Template:Convert. Would you be interested in gaining admin privileges for quicker fixes, or do you think you would be burdened with too many requests as an admin? I know some admins would rather work on editing articles but get hounded to perform admin functions instead. Plus, your expert knowledge is probably better applied to writing articles than admin activities. Perhaps you could be a "technical admin" who only updated templates, or such, to leave you more time to improve articles. I had a recent 2-account puppet block, so I doubt I could get admin privileges to update Convert, but maybe you could if you didn't get trapped as an admin. Please reply here when you have time, and if you want more time to consider, then think about it a few days before responding. Obviously, many admins would support your nomination because they're tired of the dozens of edit-protect updates! -Wikid77 (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
04-April-2010: This is just an FYI that Template:Rnd is ready to update to bypass the small subtemplate {Rnd/a} and reduce Convert nesting by 1 more level, against the template-nesting limit. This change should affect nearly 307,000 pages, and drop 307,000 wikilinks to {Rnd/a}, which will become almost unused. See counts in database report:
The full talk-page topics are in Template_talk:Rnd:
Those topics describe the issue & examples. I will activate the admin-edit request in a few hours. -Wikid77 16:50, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Template:Shades of gray has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:31, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Can You help me, please! I need to make a code (template) to turn on/off image+text, code, which will hide image and text most of time, and show only at specific date or period! Hope You can help me, i guess You have some experience in template and code making :) Vilnisr (talk) 19:40, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Jim, Please see Template talk:Convert#psi & ksi. Peter Horn User talk 02:21, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
1 kilopound per square inch (7 MPa), no reply yet. Peter Horn User talk 16:06, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Jimp
Excuse me for my ignorance. Can you please be more specific about your note "For US spelling use the parameter sp=us" on the template SI derived units. Thanks. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 06:40, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Jim, Please see Template talk:Convert#Some wikipedians don't like conversion templates as well as Banksia prionotes and User talk:Hesperian#"Conversions already made". I believe that some Wikipedians need to be educated in the advantages of coversion templates as well as how to use them. Cheers, Peter Horn User talk 16:26, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi
Did just removing the exztra pipe fis the problem ?
I tried that but it didnt work when I tried it lol
thanks though Chaosdruid (talk) 10:58, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Jimp, how does one deal with editors who find conversion templates "confusing" and roll them back when one edits them into an article? At this point I shall not mention names. I was introduced to {{convert}} "way back when", at a time when I started to convert the square footage of shopping centres to square metrage, doing so "long hand" on the windows calculator. That proved to be a tedious job and I was only too happy to start to use the convert template from from sqft to m2 when another editor pointed me to the existence of the template, e.g. 125,075 sq ft (11,619.8 m2). Way faster, and much less likely to produce errors. Editors who don't like to use conversion templates because they are "confusing" are, in my opinion, "dinosauers". Peter Horn User talk 21:38, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Peter Horn User talk 21:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Jimp, Please see Template talk:Convert#Additional conversions. I just keep on finding them and I don't suppose rhere ever be an end. Cheers, Peter Horn User talk 14:24, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! Could you add some of the Japanese units of lengths which are defined here to Template:Convert? I am working on Japanese sword related articles and it would be very useful to have conversion templates for at least bu, sun and shaku. bamse (talk) 14:56, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Greetings.
I really appreciated the code you placed on User_talk:Walter_Nissen allowing
me to sign with an ISO-compliant date.
As you can see at Talk:Oliver_R._Smoot and
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Oliver_R._Smoot&action=history
SineBot has begun glitching on that.
High irony: Smoot served as President of ISO, itself.
Your further input will be met with additional gratitude.
Walter Nissen 2010-07-12 19:57
Walter Nissen (talk) 2010-07-16 19:48
Dear Jimp,
User:mjroots asked on Template Talk:Convert for a conversion from kilometres to miles and chains. This was, I think, from his review of my now GA (yay!) Old Rouen Tramway, which has just gone FA at the French wikipedia from which I translated it, where perhaps unwisely I put the measures into chains because they are generally used on British railways. I was uneasy using that (why not miles?) but with the particular distances in that article it seemed the most appropriate; I took it to the talk page there and the consensus of two editors (i.e. not much of a consensus) was that yeah it was OK to have chains, but Roots rightly said, on my talk page or his I forget where, if we had km to miles-and-chains then this would be generally very useful on railway articles.
I attempted to make this by taking the conversion to feet-and-inches (Template:convert/ftin) and changing it, but I couldn't get it to work. I did this as a subtemplate of {{convert}}
since of course it has to be under that hierarchy to get executed properly from convert; I saw no harm in doing so and after my experiments failed I had it deleted under CSD G1 (?) Author requests deletion. It just didn't do what I was expecting, it came out with entirely the wrong measures and did not split it into two parts!
Because I don't really understand what all those single-letter parameters are for. Some I guessed as being the denominator of how to split it, the conversion into a base unit (metres I imagine) and so forth. The "j" parameter totally foxed me, I think it is some kind of frig factor for doing rounding or something.
In short, because I don't understand all the single-letter parameters used in the deep templates, I couldn't add the conversion successfully. Could you tell me how to do it? I won't go arbitrarily adding firkins per fortnight or whatever, but if I had a better understanding of these implementation parameters I could start to document them from a template creator's point of view rather than a template user's point of view.
Thanks for all your hard work. Si Trew (talk) 07:57, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
You may be interested in the discussion on Talk:Stère. --Macrakis (talk) 14:43, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, this is your distant past coming to haunt you. More than five years ago you did some temporary cleanup work that, I think, stuck until today. Now I have mentioned that edit on the Talk:History of measurement. Maybe you want to join the discussion. Hans Adler 20:06, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi ... I notice that you have revised an article, to change all instances of "U.S." (which were consistent) to "US". I was wondering why you did that. You can respond here, to keep all comments together. Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 05:01, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
I was following the MoS.
For consistency in an article, if the abbreviated form for the United States appears alongside other abbreviated country names, avoid periods throughout; never add full stops to the other abbreviations (the US, the UK, and the PRC, not the U.S., the U.K., and the P.R.C.).
This is just a reminder that {Rnd} has been modified, via the protected Template:Rnd/b1, where a change was slipped in by User:Patrick to fix a current user request. No mention was made, so I have described the change, with examples, in Template_talk:Rnd/b1. Hopefully, that change (due to a bug in the MediaWiki 1.6 software) is sufficient, and we can focus on other issues or articles needing improvement. -Wikid77 (talk) 05:24, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
See for example this essay. While he doesn't speak for all autistics, it is generally standard among higher-functioning autistics, even the ones who are very much against the idea of politicizing autism, to follow this standard for mostly the same reasons as laid out in his essay. —Soap— 14:13, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I like your half-lives table on Gigasecond, but I've decided to start trimming these articles down so that they don't come under such frequent attacks by deletionists. So I've created a separate article, List of isotopes by half-life, to collect together all the half-life lists. It'll take a while to set up, but your info isn't gone. Serendipodous 19:04, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Wow! Thanks. Have a cookie :) Serendipodous 14:35, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for creating the template (sqmi acre). Really appreciate it! Flying Saucer (talk) 01:51, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
You may have missed seeing this question: Template talk:Convert/in#Why j=-1.595166283?. --Lambiam 06:07, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:Sceptic organizations has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — This, that, and the other (talk) 09:24, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
I don't mean to seem too pushy, but I am planning to update Convert to use Template:Getprecision to handle rounding of negative numbers, as using 7 fewer levels of expansion depth, to make Convert "seem more efficient" (by using only 21 of the 40 tiny levels). The developer User:Happy-melon has started an extensive PHP "rival parser function" in which he imagines how using some internal lists of 100 or 200 pre-set, unchangeable unit names could "replace" Template:Convert (totally), as if all the other units are just a minor annoyance, especially, those pesky "mpg" and "L/100 km" which involve reciprocal conversions for 1/length, and which I think he wants to ignore. Of course, on the one hand, it might seem totally hillarious, but on the other hand, he seems quite hopeful that "Convert-in-a-thimble" could replace the entire set of Convert subtemplates, as more efficient. Therefore, I want to quickly reduce Convert's current nesting for rounding (but keep the same rounding precision), to show how concerns about Convert's expansion depth have been fixed, and there is no performance problem, to require squeezing all measurement units known to wiki-mankind into a static parser function where no new units could be defined. I'm not sure if you have talked with Happy-melon, before, but he spent several many hours creating PHP arrays of unit names to show his concept of listing 200 units to provide "all" functionality provided by Convert.
You and I both know the major power of Convert is in defining "6 new unit conversions" in 25 minutes, which do not affect the prior 2 million uses of Convert in articles, because the current units covered by Convert were only the start of units requested by users. Hence, the parser function concept will fail, while also introducing numerous other "unfixable" incompatible, complexities which might remain for years. I suppose you are quite tired of trying to explain why a giant list of 200 units will not handle what Wikipedia needs for future conversions, and a parser function with English units names will not be "well received" in 150 other national languages. So, I will try to help get the message across to other people. Meanwhile, by reducing Convert's expansion depth by 7 levels, it would become less of a target of people who say, "WP:Don't worry about performance" but really do. If you are not too bored, you might want to look at the latest attempt to code conversions as yet-another giant list of 200 units, this time written in PHP language:
I wish people would ask about the feasibility of such efforts, before spending many hours attempting a massive rewrite, but perhaps some people need to try by using a giant-list rewrite to better understand why it is doomed to failure, as they will learn 1 month later, after 5 busy users adamantly demand another 5 new units be converted. -Wikid77 12:38, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
A hybrid would probably be better than a replacement. When I started the rewrite of convert I thought it would take a couple of weeks. Years later we're still adding units. The beauty of the template is that units can just be added. Could units be added to the PHP code? JIMp talk·cont 04:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Jimp, Thank you for rewording the hatnote. The first edit was great, however I felt that the 2nd and 3rd edits did not convey any useful information - the neccessary links are already in place. Martinvl (talk) 08:56, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
A LONG TIME AGO, IN A WIKIPEDIA FAR, FAR AWAY. . . .
Bred-bread split
You made this former OR article into a redirect way back before time began. Do you remember? Are you the same person? In two or three weeks it'll be five years ago. Anyway, I'm just letting you know that I think it's time this redirect was abandoned and deleted: To that end, see Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2011_March_29#Bred-bread split. I'm not watching your talk page, so if you think any discussion is relevant here instead of on the RfD, gimme a heads up.
—Felix the Cassowary 17:18, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
I noticed this edit, in which you make fairly substantial changes to the wording of the obesity article. You did not leave an edit summary, which is mandatory for all substantive edits. You could have explained, for instance, why you replaced most uses of the word "caloric intake" with "food energy intake" etc - a change that is probably appropriate but needs justification.
I see you received a similar request in June 2010, and a quick glance over your contributions reveals that you very rarely leave edit summaries. JFW | T@lk 17:08, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
I think you might want to comment here :) --Waldir talk 02:53, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Moving Template:February29InRecentYears to Template:ThisDateInRecentYears/doc doesn't seem like a good way to preserve the history of the former page. Anyone looking for the history of Template:February29InRecentYears won't know to look at Template:ThisDateInRecentYears/doc. The doc page has a completely different purpose than the old template page and combining the history seems like a bad idea. Would you consider un-moving it and letting the TfD process determine if the old template should be deleted? I have no problem with being bold, but the corpse of the old templates is barely cold and we haven't seen any input yet as to whether they're preferable. There's no hurry to clean house on these. Thanks. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 03:06, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Jimp
Please see Template talk:Convert#And yet another. Peter Horn User talk 01:38, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi HiLo48 and Jimp
I have posted this to each of you personally rather than putting it on the Talk Page as I did not want to be too public about what I am saying.
The three examples that I originally chose were a landmark in the United States, one in the United Kingdom and one is Asia. I later added the section about bridges. Somebody else added the bit about Central Park, but I was not too happy about that as it is rather artificial (my examples are all within 5% of a kilometre). Before posting this, I looked at both your home pages and I believe that you are both Aussies. I was brought up in South Africa (though I now live in the UK) which, like Australia, adopted the metric system fully in the 1970's. The examples that I have chosen are targeted at UK and US readers who do not have the advantage that you and I had of seeing kilometres in use in everyday life.
I notice furthermore that HiLo48 wrote "This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans have such a hard time with them" on his home page. The example that I gave is trying to help them.
I trust that this puts things into perspective. Martinvl (talk) 19:49, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
While I applaud you changing the various auto conversion templates, you need to be a little more careful as you removed the optional second parameter which specifies the number of decimal places. You also removed the usage examples. --Biker Biker (talk) 07:24, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
See User_talk:Lightmouse#Auto_templates and add whatever support you feel it needs. --Biker Biker (talk) 16:43, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I approve, and in fact, I believe I even offered to nominate you at one point in time. I was actually watching the page just in case it was created. Let me know if you want me to look it over before it goes live. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I see you've now passed! Good luck with your new admin job! Reaper Eternal (talk) 00:24, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations, your RfA was successful. While editing protected templates will hopefully be easy, the New Admin School might be useful to play around with your other admin tools, and here is the how-to guide. This and this are good words of caution—had I known of that before, I wouldn't be the reason as to why these two pages exist. :p Good luck with the new tools. Maxim(talk) 00:25, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations and welcome to the club of nastiest, meanest, wikedest Wikipedians ;) Someone I'm sure will give you a ragged T-shirt so that you can walk around incognito to avoid being stoned. All the very best! --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
Well done Jimp! jorgenev 01:54, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry that I missed the RfA. I'd have supported you :) congratulations! --Waldir talk 01:04, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you to all who participated in my RfA. Thank you, those who supported my nomination, your comments were encouraging. Thank you, those who opposed, your comments were enlightening. I'll strive to use the tools well. JIMp talk·cont 02:01, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
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