Griff, I state the following as a staff member and senior member of TRF, not as a member of TNO or a participant in this debate. This is not an argument or a discussion, just me stating the facts as they always have been and continue to be.
All rulings, past and present, have been based on the presumption that shipyards are 40,000 meters long. Regardless of what you may have thought or assumed, previous incarnations of the rules page DID feature this number, and it was only by thoughtless omission that it was not included this time.
Is that an unreasonable length? Maybe. But it's also the accepted, standard, and staff-ruled length. If it is going to change, it will not be cause the Almighty Admiral Griff has deemed it so. TRF will not alter itself to conform to your presumptions about it.
Evidently, you had a misconception about the way things are on TRF. That's fine -- it happens to everyone. Unfortunately, things will not be changed on our end to consolidate two evidently separate perceptions of it. You are a member of TRF, like everyone else. Not god. Your mere thought does not make it so.
if so it will undermine the courses of innumerable RPs - past, present and future
So be it. It is not the job of TRF to shape itself to suit your stories, but the job of your stories to shape themselves to suit TRF.