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:No, the article is correct that's 9004 MW not 9.004 MW. THe ',' is used as a separator in the UK, not as a decimal place.[[User:GliderMaven|GliderMaven]] ([[User talk:GliderMaven|talk]]) 19:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
:No, the article is correct that's 9004 MW not 9.004 MW. THe ',' is used as a separator in the UK, not as a decimal place.[[User:GliderMaven|GliderMaven]] ([[User talk:GliderMaven|talk]]) 19:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

== Need for specific dating on all Wikipedia pages concerning Wind Power ==

The installation of new wind power projects has become so rapid that Wikipedia is experiencing difficulties in keeping up to date. The article here, in paragraph 1, states that the installed capacity of onshore wind power in the whole of the UK is 9,512 megawatts. In another Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_onshore_wind_farms_in_the_United_Kingdom , at the bottom of the table therein) the same value is quoted as 3679.68 megawatts. The discrepancy between 3679 and 9512 MW lowers the confidence of the reader in the accuracy of the figures presented by Wikipedia.

May I suggest that figures of this type need to be accompanied by the date on which they were calculated and last believed to be accurate.<ref><ref><ref><ref></ref></ref></ref></ref>

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Spawn?

This article has grown rather large, nearing the 100k suggested limit. The section on offshore could be spawned into a new article. The offshore and onshore lists are also articles on their own, and could be limited to perhaps 10 entries here. TGCP (talk) 11:06, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, it is getting rather unwieldy. Perhaps Offshore wind power in the United Kingdom? It seems List of offshore wind farms in the United Kingdom and List of onshore wind farms in the United Kingdom already exist but the info from this article could be merged into them if it is not already present. As you say, we probably only need the 10 largest offshore and onshore on this page. Del♉sion23 (talk) 18:27, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, a split would help improve readability and manageability of the article. Tables limited to 10 lines would help too. regards, Johnfos (talk) 20:25, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No, this is incredibly often misunderstood. The size of the raw file has *nothing* to do with splitting; that gets bumped up by all the wiki annotation without affecting the readability much at all. It's actually nowhere near the relevant 100k limit, and it already has subarticles anyway. The stats for the article currently are: 28 kB (4730 words). You're supposed to consider a split at around 50kB of text/10,000 words, we're about half that.GliderMaven (talk) 21:59, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Let's not get too hung up with article length; it is just one factor to be considered when splitting (see WP:Split). Johnfos (talk) 08:34, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

MW vs GW

Para 2 says; "total installed capacity of over 14 gigawatts: 9,004 megawatts of onshore capacity and 5,098 megawatts of offshore capacity.[5] "

9MW + 5MW is 14MW, not GW so one of these sets of figures is the wrong SI unit...

I'm guessing the GW one, (because the UK's total capacity is 50GW) but I'm not sure enough to edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.81.250.187 (talk) 17:48, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, the article is correct that's 9004 MW not 9.004 MW. THe ',' is used as a separator in the UK, not as a decimal place.GliderMaven (talk) 19:25, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Need for specific dating on all Wikipedia pages concerning Wind Power

The installation of new wind power projects has become so rapid that Wikipedia is experiencing difficulties in keeping up to date. The article here, in paragraph 1, states that the installed capacity of onshore wind power in the whole of the UK is 9,512 megawatts. In another Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_onshore_wind_farms_in_the_United_Kingdom , at the bottom of the table therein) the same value is quoted as 3679.68 megawatts. The discrepancy between 3679 and 9512 MW lowers the confidence of the reader in the accuracy of the figures presented by Wikipedia.

May I suggest that figures of this type need to be accompanied by the date on which they were calculated and last believed to be accurate.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).</ref></ref></ref>

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