User talk:Nodraak

Welcome!

Hi, Nodraak. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask a question on your talk page. BilCat (talk) 19:12, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Web scraping

Hi, what exactly are you making these changes for? While your efforts to improve Wikipedia are commendable, the actual changes are inconsistent with Wikipedia guidelines on numbers and measurements found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Units of measurement, particularly on non-breaking spaces and use of US Customary Units. Please stop making these unilateral changes. Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 19:24, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Ok, I am new to wikipedia, and this talk page is very hard to understand. Hope I'm doing good here. Let's talk about my edits you reverted (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Airbus_A340&action=history)

You said: "non-breaking spaces are recommended" -> Before my edit there were nbs only before "ft" but not before "in". Was that an error? Should I add a nbs before "in" as well?

You said: "US-related articles use US Customary Units first" -> I looked at several pages and I didn't find a convention, so I was just trying to standardize things and I figured that SI units were more logical. But ok, I will use US units on US pages now on.

Nodraak (talk) 19:25, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

But why are you doing this? For what purpose? This seems to be an odd task for a new user to tackle, especially without trying understanding Wikipedia guidelines first. - BilCat (talk) 19:32, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for not reading the guidelines Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Units of measurement before any edits.

What I'm trying to do is gather data on every existing plane such as Seatings, Width, Heigh, Thrust and so on, for a personnal project. I know programming and plan to automate this data gathering (web scraping), but there are a lot of inconsistencies that makes the task hard. For instance, there are 38 times "Length", 7 times "Overall length" and 2 times "Length overall". Another example: there are 13 times "Cruise speed" and 7 times "Cruising speed". I would like to change the less used wording. That will of course benefit me (that's the primary reason I am willing to do this), but I believe it is beneficial for wikipedia as well, as there are currently several different wordings for the same thing.

Does that makes sense to you? Should I get several people involved to agree on the proper wording before making any edits?

Nodraak (talk) 19:52, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]