[WikiEN-l] Excessive units converstion?

Wed Nov 1 01:14:15 UTC 2006

On 31/10/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just found this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote#In Cold Blood
>
> Apparently some time ago, someone added a metric conversion (4 km^2)
> to the term "1,000 acres" in the quoted New York Times article.
>
> That's a direct historical quote - is an in-line metric units
> conversion appropriate within the quote?
>
> It seems to me like we shouldn't be doing that.
>
>
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Would we not give a conversion if a historical quote gave a distance
in furlongs? Maybe not inline, but somewhere on the page.

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