Tony Sidaway wrote:
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.
Since this seems to be favoring the majority Systeme Internationale
against minority systems such as Foot-pound-second, shouldn't we still
refer this to Countering Systemic Bias? :)
I was writing more in jest than in seriousness. I'm mostly just a
little frustrated as an Australian having to constantly convert from
pounds to kilometres, or from miles to kilometres whenever I read an
American source (and since it is mostly America who resists the metric
system, this probably is systemic bias).
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com