[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Mon May 16 11:50:44 UTC 2005

On 5/16/05, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alphax wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> 
> It would be wonderful if Wikipedia converted completely to the metric
> system, or perhaps [[SI]] ("the most widely used system of units").
> Perhaps units should be referred to the Countering Systemic Bias
> Wikiproject.

 It isn't Systemic Bias and most of the articles seem to be drifting
in the direction of SI anyway.

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geni