Template talk:SI multiples

message: Is there some reason why this table doesn't include fractions of the base units? The absence of the millihenry, microwatt, and picofarad are quite noticeable in their respective articles, as would be the decibel, centimeter, millivolt, microgram, and femtosecond if this template were used in these units' base articles. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:40, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Um… I suppose I should thank the readers of this template for not pointing out to me that the fractional units are in a second column to the right of the others, and apparently have been there since Urhixidur created the template. But I'll point it out anyway, since I raised the supposed issue. Considering the effort I took to cite specific instances where the non-missing prefixes would be essential, I couldn't be more embarrassed over my inexplicable failure to notice them. I apologize to Urhixidur for my error. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:53, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I actually just did exactly the same thing as you.... I think it needs to be rearranged. Fosnez 11:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing fractional units 

message: Here are some suggestions:
#Actions based on present but empty parameters are nonintuitive.  It should require something along the lines of "k=bold" rather than just "k="
#The cutoffs discussed above should be implemented.
#The default should be to not include the prefixes centi-, deci-, deka-, and hecto- with some mechanism to include some or all of them if they are actually in fairly common use with some unit.
#The anchor suggestion above.
#The documentation needs to be rewritten (perhaps using the /doc subpage now becoming common in templates, something that can be edited without any danger of editing the template itself.
Gene Nygaard (talk) 15:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your comments. I've made a new template, Template:SI multiples 2. I suggest that you place further comments on the corresponding talk page. When everybody agrees on the new template, it can go live or be moved back onto this template. Responses to your suggestions: (1) I think it is more important that the template is flexible, consistent, and has an appealing layout. (2) done. (3) done. (4) Not sure. Multiple anchors on a page with the same id are not valid HTML, and a section ==SI multiples== already generates an anchor "#SI_multiples". (5) done. Han-Kwang (t) 19:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions

message: For some reason, this template is ignoring the float:right style that someone added some time ago to try to make the resulting table optionally float to the right.  Instead, it ends up centered, with no text flowing around it.  I don't know enough about the MediaWiki template markup or styles to try to fix this.  --DachannienTalkContrib 17:02, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, it displays fine in Opera, but indeed not in Firefox. I'll have a look. Han-Kwang (t) 19:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improper floating? 

message: The convention for visual appeal, which is taught in every K12 Com. Tech. class where one studies Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., is to capitalize the first word in a bullet point or table cell whenever at all possible without changing the meaning of the information. We can capitalize accordingly in the Name column where the full name of the unit (as opposed to the abbreviation) is given in each cell. Can someone please figure out the syntax to make this change? The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 00:16, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: I was fixing up some tables elsewhere and noticed that the table in this template has similar inaccessibility problems. Please note this page: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial. I'd fix it myself but doing these kind of table edits within a template environment is a bit beyond me. djr13 (talk) 16:20, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table inaccessible