[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Mon May 16 08:21:32 UTC 2005

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Skyring wrote:
[snip]
> 
> CE/BCE is already a standard in many disciplines. Make it so in WP.
> 

...except where use of BC and AD is appropriate. Would you have us
convert every instance of something being measured in feet, inches,
fathoms, chains, pounds, ounces, psi and the like to its metric equivalent?

You can't impose a blanket policy where the usage is dependent on
context. Like naming conventions, there *are* exceptions to the rule.

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