Wikipedia talk:List of infoboxes/Proposed/RADAR Infobox

Demo of proposal

radar
RADAR details

Country	country
Introduced	year
Unit cost	00$$
Number	no
Type	type
Radar band	S,L, etc.
Frequency	x meter
Range	coverage
Altitude	altitude
Diameter	dia
Azimuth	120°
Elevation	60°
Precision	xx
Power	xx

{{Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Proposed/RADAR Infobox
 |name      = radar <!-- optional, defaults PAGENAME -->
 |image     = jpg,gif....
 |width     = <!-- optional, defaults to 225 -->
 |caption   = <!-- optional -->
 |country   = country
 |year      = year
 |cost      = 00$$
 |number    = no
 |type      = type
 |band      = S,L, etc.
 |frequency = x meter 
 |range     = coverage
 |altitude  = altitude
 |diameter  = dia
 |azimuth   = 120°
 |elevation = 60°
 |precision = xx
 |power     = xx
}}

Ok, now that as subpage and thus in a test sandbox sort of area:

First question - which articles did you have in mind that this might be used on (not knowing anything about radars, please give me a few example pages to look at)

Secondly the parameters, is current choice of name and displayed label both obvious to other editors & readers as well as being reasonably succinct & short ?

• template calling as you will see above is "Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Proposed/RADAR Infobox", but on going live and moving to "Template:RADAR Infobox" the call would just be for "RADAR Infobox"
• added width option to image if default of 225 not acceptable
• Presumably azimuth & elevation take number values and the template will add the awkward to type ° degree character
• Altitude & Range -what units are this to be in: optional when the template is called (eg "altitude = 1000 feet") or is it to be internationally standardised in metres & kilometers (ie "altitude=300" gets shown as "Altitude 300 m") ?
• Frequency - example initially given is with value "x meter", but presumably frequency should be in Hz/KHz/MHz ? (distance would be the wavelength)
• Cost - presumably defined per article with currency appropriate for that country
• number - is this number of units installed ?
• type - what does this mean?
• Precision & Power - again what units are these to be in ?

David Ruben ^Talk 13:06, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

This looks very old - but we already have Template:Infobox radar Secretlondon (talk) 04:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)