Template talk:Infobox hillclimb venue

Course length

The parameters for length should be miles or kilometers for longer road hillclimbs and yards or meters for short motorcycle and all terrain vehicle hillclimbs. I posted to the WP:MOTOR talk page. If no response after a week or so, I'll modify the template. Less than 50 articles use this template as of Dec 2013 and adding the new options shouldn't break the template. I would prefer someone more skilled at templates do the work. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·ʇuoɔ) Join WER 18:31, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Course Length (Again)

Unless someone objects, I will change this template (well I THINK I can do that...) a bit so it can either have metres (yards), yards (metres), kms (miles) or miles (kms). The way it is now most articles only have miles and yards which is unnecessary, and also most distances of hillclimbs in the UK are quoted in yards so it makes sense to do it this way to give a metric equivalent.A7V2 (talk) 03:35, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

If I'm correct, people will be able to choose what metric to use? In Portugal we use to have races around 4000-5000 meters (we don't really use km, to give more accurate length, because some small changes are made over the years increasing and decreasing a few meters).Rpo.castro (talk) 11:53, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

My plan is to change it so that only one unit is entered. If you enter metres, it will show the distance in metres, with yards in brackets, and vice-versa if yards is entered. And then if kms are entered it shows kms with miles in brackets, and again vice-versa if miles are entered. Currently if miles or yards are entered (even if metres or kms are entered as well) then you will either get yards with miles in brackets, or miles with yards in brackets which is not ideal. What I think it should be is that in countries where metric is standard you get the metric distance with equivalent imperial unit in brackets, and in countries where imperial is standard you ge the imperial distance with equivalent metric unit in brackets.A7V2 (talk) 12:23, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

I have made the change. I will change all pages which use the template to only have one distance in the infobox, choosing whichever seems most appropriate but of course I could choose wrong! A7V2 (talk) 10:32, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

I found a small error which I was able to fix, and all pages using the template have now been updated. A7V2 (talk) 10:47, 8 February 2020 (UTC)