Talk:Conformity standards

Ship Template Stuff
The main reason I've been doing things the way I have is for the sake of consistency. It makes things look more professional if everything fits the same mold no matter where you go and it makes things simpler to read for those who aren't familiar with our stats...

KPH
I've been using "KPH" instead of "km/h" because it reads better next to our other all-caps stats (which are meant to be all caps) such as MGLT, RU, and SBD. In particular, MGLT is what convinced me to go with KPH. The reasoning is that if the space speed is in caps, it would look more consistent to have the air speed follow suit.

Crew "Twice"
I completely agree that adding on "Crew" after the number of crew is repetitive. Why do it then? Because some ships list more than one simple number for crew. Take the Imperial Mark I for example. There's the crew, and then there's the actual breakdown of the crew. Other cases, like the Defender-class Star Destroyer, only list a number for basic crew, and then another number for gunners. You have to identify both those things. You can't for example, do this:


 * 354
 * 50 Gunners

It looks incomplete. The below example reads much better...


 * 354 Crew
 * 50 Gunners

So, because of that, I've been putting down "Crew" on ships with only one number as well, once again, to keep things consistent with the pages that list more than one item for crew numbers.

Capping Words (i.e. "meters" to "Meters")
Admittedly, This really isn't that necessary, but I think it looks better with the formatting of the rest of the infobox. Keeps things consistent (bet you're sick of that word by now :P). I realize Wook doesn't do this, but then Wook also doesn't cap the first letters in their article titles either, which isn't proper grammar if we want to get technical...

Comments
That should cover everything. I probably won't have a chance to reply to anything until next week, but at least you know my reasons now... --Halomek 23:35, 17 June 2008 (UTC)