Talk:Nathaniel Dance

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Date	Process	Result
June 5, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 17, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that at the Battle of Pulo Aura, a fleet of East Indiamen under Commodore Nathaniel Dance fought off an entire French squadron?

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Value conversions

Is there anything that can be done about the way these display? '£5,000 (approximately £338 thousand)' seems odd, I instinctively want to change it to £338,000 rather than read £388 and then the 'thousand' (and I can't see '£5 thousand' working, surely it would be 'five thousand pounds'?). This seems to fit with WP:MOSNUM 'numbers greater than nine are commonly rendered in numerals, or may be rendered in words if they are expressed in one or two words.' I can't see a way to do it using Template:Formatprice, so I suggest dropping the template and writing the figures normally, but retaining a footnote to the Measuring Worth site. Benea (talk) 01:11, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We could ask on the template talkpage - I think there must have been a change in behaviour, because I don't rememebr it formatting like this previously. The disadvantage to changing to just writing it out at the current figures is that I assume that with the template, the calculation is basically perfomed on the fly, so the figures will always be up-to-date. David Underdown (talk) 08:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]