User talk:MalcolmLord

March 2021

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Northern Independence Party. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. — Czello 17:38, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

May 2021

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at 2021 United Kingdom local elections, you may be blocked from editing. — Czello 21:02, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Metric to imperial conversion

Hi @MalcolmLord, you're quite right to convert area figures to imperial measurements on UK articles, as per Wikipedia policy.

However, the Office of National Statistics (the source of most UK area measurements) only gives figures in KM2. And because metric units are smaller than imperial units, metric converts accurately to imperial, but imperial doesn't convert accurately back to metric.

But there is a way around this: the 'flip' function. It allows you to give the ONS figure in metric in the code, but it displays the imperial figure first on Wikipedia. This both retains the accurate metric figure from the source and still displays the imperial figure first with KM2 in brackets.

For example: 8,192 square miles (21,218 km²)

Code: convert|21218|km2|sqmi|order=flip

Hope that's helpful :) Dgp4004 (talk) 23:45, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]