Talk:1947 Rose Bowl

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[edit] DYK January 27, 2008

A fact from 1947 Rose Bowl appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 27 January 2008.

[edit] (Metric) Conversion for American Football

(Copied from User talk:Lightmouse talk page)

Lightmouse, I think that your script is a really great idea for adding conversion units for SI. However, one particular subject, American Football is a "game of inches" and the field is marked in yards. Statistics are kept in yards. Although this is not international, this is the way the subject handles the measures. While I question whether the script should be used at all on North American sports subjects, I do understand the need for international audiences to grasp the concept of yards, feet and inches in terms of their own measurement systems. The script results for the 1947 Rose Bowl article are inappropriate in a number of instances, introducing a 9% error. A four yard run is more appropriately 366 centimeters, not four meters. and a 1 yard run is 91 centimeters, not 1 meter. My opinion is that in the subject, the most appropriate place for conversion was on the particular DYK statment: "UCLA's Al Hoisch returned Illinois kicker Don Maechtle’s kickoff 103 yards (94 m), establishing a Rose Bowl and UCLA team record". This establishes the length of the run in any context. Otherwise my opinion is that the conversion adds very little value in articles on this subject and should not be modified by an automated script. Thanks, Group29 (talk) 16:34, 28 January 2008 (UTC)