User talk:Lightbot/Archives/2011/June

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In order for messages to be seen quicker, please comment directly at User talk:Lightmouse. Lightmouse (talk) 11:24, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

• That being the case, have you thought about redirecting this talk page? --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 02:03, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Units of measure

When replacing the old conversion templates with {{Convert}}, please make sure that you retain the spelling preference. The templates such as {{km2 to mi2}} use the US spelling by default, while {{Convert}} uses the Commonwealth spelling. Many (if not most) replacements this bot has done in the past day or so neglect the spelling choice completely. Please re-visit the changes done so far and make sure the spelling preference is retained in future edits. Thank you.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 2, 2011; 20:52 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll investigate. Lightmouse (talk) 20:53, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

• In order to allow the issue to be properly addressed, could you kindly supply some diffs where the template change has caused the rendered US spelling to change improperly in the page in question? --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 03:38, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Here's one. Tinkinswood is a 6000 year old megalithic dolmen in south Wales, in the island of Great Britain. British English is appropriate in this context, yet Lightbot specifically chose American English spelling, amending {{m to ft|7.4|abbr=no}} to {{convert|7.4|m|ft|sp=us}}. Cheers, Daicaregos (talk) 20:27, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

More evidence of this on Pregny-Chambésy. This shouldn't be in US spelling, kilometre is the correct spelling in Europe (and most places outside the US.) Canterbury Tail talk 11:33, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

• I've been following this. The diff to Tinkinswood seems to be a knee-jerk adjustment to the Lightbot code following the initial complaint that replacing the {{m to ft}} with {{convert}} would change the defaulted spelling. The latter template only displays the full spelling of the primary unit; secondary units are stated as abbreviations. Therefore, the only instances I can think of are articles using US spelling where measurements for length stated in 'meters' and volumes stated in 'liters' are converted to imperial. As the US uses imperial, the cases where the changeover might call for |sp=us to be used are probably few and far between. --Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 02:43, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

What you are doing is scent-marking articles with US spelling. This is offensive. Please stop it.--Toddy1 (talk) 17:17, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

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A proposal can be made via her strict father, here: Tony (talk) 00:48, 16 June 2011 (UTC)