User:Rfassbind/infobox planet revision 2017

Infobox planet revision 2017. Started on 30 December 2016.

Relates to:
 * Overall revision and updates of MP-articles
 * Talk Tom - infobox revision

Proposed code amendments

 * avoid unit-conversion for AU (to Gigameter) and hours (to days). This clutters the infobox.
 * avoid mean_radius. Mean figures should always be diameter, not radius. Lable dimension is unhelpfully vague. (Mean) radius-diameter relation is uncontroversial. Converting diameters (from publications) into radius is problematic: e.g. 31 km → 15.5 km. It can add to false precision, by adding decimals. This does not occur when converting radii from literature to diameters. "Dimensions" such as 205×185×170 km, as in 6 Hebe, may as well be called "diameter" (as long as the label does not say "mean" I don't see a problem)
 * MOID Earth minimum intersection distance only used for NEOs
 * jupiter_moid to be defined, used for JTs. Using only when &lt; 0.5 AU?
 * tisserand to be defined, used for JTs 1647 Menelaus. Using only when close to 3 or below?
 * do not use invisible unicode chars, keep
 * do not use  between figures and refs (seems to be fixed); always used between text and refs
 * do not import figures for physical parameters using a "jpldata" cite. JPL frequently changes data (not always to the better). Use cite that refers to a bibcode. Make sure not to import already referenced figures due to different rounding or lack/presence of sigmas.
 * sort parameters, instead of adding them to the end of infobox. E.g. mean_motion after mean_anomaly. Seems to be impossible with AWB

Proposed template amendments
This concern only for minor planets. (minor planet = yes)
 * Amending label: remove redundancy, abbreviate, avoid line-breaking labels (while maintaining links an tooltip info).
 * example screenshot before and after
 * Add link to label "Named for" (Named after). Link to MoMP#ID
 * Add new parameter number if number-parsing inside template is difficult/impossible. Unnumbered mp-articles have an empty parameter (or Zero according to ALCDEF-specification)

Future possible article expansions

 * add note, with link to Screenshot of light-curve (Pravec, when published on web)
 * Spin axis (Poles):
 * add figures (coordintes) to body
 * add figures to new infobox param
 * upload 3D-models, Wikimedia
 * add external link to 3-D model website
 * evaluate options for NPARs (tumblers), what makes sense and can be done reasonably?
 * create external link template for standard ELs (LCDB, Discovery Circumstances, Google books, JPL (template itself)
 * revise and complete spectra-type categories (Tholen/SMASS)
 * re-group Hilda asteroids to own orbital group, using distinct color. Amend in accordance to LOMP
 * revise all articles after new List of observatory codes is implemented
 * revise TNO articles after new list of TNOs is implemented