Talk:1960 24 Hours of Le Mans

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message: Philby NZ, regarding this revert, please see MOS:CONVERSIONS:  and . Thryduulf (talk) 22:09, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I can't be bothered arguing with you. Sufficed to say the European-based FIA/CSI does not issue its class categories in American weights and measures - its a 3-litre formula or 1500cc maximum capicity or suchlike. I can accept speed conversions as those are not regulatory measures but aspects of comparing car-performance. I feel it is pedantry and clutters up the readability of an article just for the benefit of a limited portion of the Wikipedia audience. Even the American IndyCar series, for example, issues its specification in the metric system. I presume you will now go through and update all those corresponding pages? Philby NZ (talk) 00:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Just because specifications are in metric doesn't mean all readers understand metric, so certainly they should be converted at least on first use. Speeds, distances, fuel economy, etc. certainly should always be converted in an article like this one. I'm actually mostly working through fixing broken non-breaking spaces at the moment (see the diff of line 1,044 of here) and adding the conversion template whenever I happen upon an article that needs it. I'm working through them in the order the search engine presents them to me rather than in any topical order (although villages in India, settlements in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan and biology-related articles seem to feature most heavily at the moment), but I will be adding conversions to the Indy articles if/when I come across them. Thryduulf (talk) 00:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well going by that logic, (adding a conversion where one was never used in motor-racing commentary) then I'll hope you'll also be updating articles like The whole nine yards and The Whole Nine Yards (film) to put those into metric (8.23 metres) for us non-American readers. None of the source books I have or reviewed ever cite imperial conversions when referring to the class-limits. Its a concern if you're not coming from a motor-racing enthusiast's or historian's perspective that your arbitrary fixes make our articles look amateur or dumbed-down by comparison to that competant literature. Philby NZ (talk) 10:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversions