User talk:ShiningStarz

Metric conversions
Thank you for your edits at Toyota Corolla (E120). Unfortunately, I had to revert them but I will try to explain why. The template works best when its input value is taken directly from the reference. Quite often the reference uses the wrong units (ie the reference uses inches when we really want mm first). Your changes took the output of the previous use of 'convert' and used it as the new input. This means the final output value shown on the page has been converted twice. This has the twin effects of possibly loosing precision (each conversion does some rounding) and also makes it harder to be able to verify the original value in the reference. The better and easier way to flip the units around is to add '|disp=flip' to the template.

E.g. for a reference that gives 3.1 inches:

Notice also that swapping the units like you did also requires changing the number of significant figures for the output (the 3rd row changes rounding of 0 decimal digits in mm to 1 decimal digit in inches). This is of course an easy thing to get wrong. Much easier to just add '|disp=flip'. Cheers.  Stepho  talk 10:33, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Referencing with links
Hi, when citing websites like toyota.co.za/ranges/corolla-quest like you did here, can you please get an archived link from archive.org? I only ask because these links are very volatile and change all the time for when new models come into effect. If there is no archive available, the website should prompt you to save it manually there.

I added an archive for you for the Corolla Quest:. Cheers, OSX (talk • contributions) 05:35, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

March 2018
Hello, I'm GrapefruitSculpin. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, Honda Civic (tenth generation), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ''Reason: unsupported and uncommented change of dimensions. If this was an editor lacking history, I'd likely figure it's sneaky vandalism.'' →‎ GS →‎ ☎ → 03:59, 31 March 2018 (UTC)