User talk:Daskies

September 2017

Hello, I'm DVdm. Your recent edit to Escape velocity appears to have added incorrect information, so I removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. DVdm (talk) 21:01, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note re this: the English Wikipedia uses the period as a decimal point, and the comma as the thousands separator. The original value was correct (and sourced). - DVdm (talk) 21:30, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand, you say that the period is used but on the page it clearly displays: "11.186 km/s (6.951 mi/s; 40,270 km/h; 25,020 mph)" from the automated converter. I don't care if a comma or period is used, but since the converter is defaulting to a comma for the generated values leaving it as a period makes no sense. Additionally citing a source isn't relevant here because I'm changing formatting, not content.

Daskies (talk) 21:45, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The esacpe velocity is 11.186 km/s, not 11186 km/s. If you change that to 11,186 km/s, you change the value to 11186 km/s, which is wrong. The original "11.186 km/s (6.951 mi/s; 40,270 km/h; 25,020 mph)" shows four correct values. Your "11,186 km/s (6,951 mi/s; 40,270,000 km/h; 25,020,000 mph)" is wrong—just look at these strings "40,270,000 km/h" and "25,020,000 mph": there is no way they can make sense. - DVdm (talk) 22:47, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

... and see also WP:DECIMAL:

A period/full point (.), never a comma, is used as the decimal point (6.57, not 6,57).

- DVdm (talk) 12:30, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

September 2018

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This was a bad edit. See wp:REFPUNCT. - DVdm (talk) 18:41, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]