Template talk:Infobox planet

Standard gravitational parameter
GM is typically known to higher precision than G or M, and is often encountered as such in formulae, so it's useful for more precise calculations. I wanted to add it for Earth, but it seems we need to discuss this. So, how about it? Is it too much detail for Wikipedia? If we don't allow it here, I don't see where else it might have a good place, so this data would be missing from Wikipedia, then. Darsie42 (talk) 12:23, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Mean radius and mean diameter
I suggest to add wiki-links for mean radius and mean diameter to the infoboxes. Renerpho (talk) 23:37, 17 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I think the only reason why they hadn't been added before is that those articles are relatively new. Renerpho (talk) 23:59, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

'Yes' vs. Yes
has reverted an IP edit to Laomedeia today. In the edit summary, Bruce1ee wrote that image_scale uses a scaling factor, see Template:Infobox planet, but I think this problem originated with the template. To quote the example given on the template page: 1.25 increases image size by 25%. 'Yes' reduces to 75%. The IP editor probably looked at this, and did exactly what it says: Adding  'Yes' , which of course does nothing (it should just be Yes).

That's not very user-friendly. I would suggest to get rid of the inverted commas. They aren't necessary, and just cause confusion when an editor isn't familiar with the syntax. And this isn't about IPs or new users. If I myself came to a template I haven't used before, and it told me I needed to add 'yes' as a parameter, I'd do so, inverted commas included. Especially if the other example (the 1.25, in this case) is not in inverted commas. Renerpho (talk) 23:54, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Edit request 30 June 2024
Description of suggested change: Per what I wrote in Template talk:Infobox planet and Template talk:Infobox planet: Make a small change to the example given for the image_scale parameter (its current form has led to an editor taking it literally, requiring a revert); also, add wiki-links for two parameters in the infobox for which a Wikipedia article has recently been created.

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Renerpho (talk) 03:21, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Full-protection-shackle-no-text.svg Not done: is usually not required for edits to the documentation or categories of templates using a documentation subpage. Use the 'edit' link at the top of the green "Template documentation" box to edit the documentation subpage. But a better method would be to use  which produces yes, which is unambiguous. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 07:28, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I have made the code changes requested. The documentation page change is not possible, because the text in question is in the TemplateData code section, which is not documentation. The TemplateData code section does not, for some reason, accept wikitext, even in the "Description" field. If you want to explain how image_scale works, create a section in the actual documentation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:50, 1 July 2024 (UTC)