User:Wikid77/Template talk:Convert/text3

This is the discussion/talk-page for Template:Convert/text3.

Created
The Template:Convert/text3 was created on 22 Oct 2013 by long-term User:Wikid77, to address the strong user complaint of too many conversions intermingled within article text, so it combines the 3 conversions at the end of the text to reduce the disruption within the free-form text. {Convert/text3} functions as a wp:wrapper template for {convert} and allows quick insertion of free-form text as multiple phrases, beyond the limits of {convert} as designed for ranges of numbers but not free-form text between numbers as in {convert/text3}. Over the past 2 years, the original doc-page was deleted/renamed without consensus, and so it was recreated to begin rewriting the help-text about the various parameters this month (November 2015). -Wikid77 (talk) 19:28, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Purpose
Over the years, some users have complained how the use of separate {Convert} conversions after each amount in the text have been distracting in the format, "miles (km) miles (km) miles (km)", and so {convert/text3} combines all 3 conversions at the end of the 3 amounts in free-form text. For example:    &bull; {&#123;convert/text3 |12|from Hampton,|20 |from Norfolk, and|62|mi|km|from Richmond west|out=,|out2=&|out3=west}}     &rarr; 12 miles from Hampton, 20 mi from Norfolk, and 62 mi from Richmond west (19, 32 & 100 km west). In general, there are many cases where a free-form text involves the conversion of 3 amounts, which could be automatically gathered together at the end of the text. This template {convert/text3} has been ideal to simplify pages with many conversions interleaved within the text. Also, by having 3 amounts formatted within the same template, then the relative precision of each can be adjusted to match the highest precision in the set of 3 numbers. -Wikid77 (talk) 19:28, 14 December 2015 (UTC)