On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 06:03:23AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I would certainly oppose any idea that the Metric
system is better
than English (it isn't, and for many purposes it's provably worse),
and going further, even if Metric were better, it isn't the role of
wikipedia to push it on people. (The government in the U.S. has been
trying since I was a little kid to encourage the use of Metric, but
with only tiny impact.)
What if it turns out some people only understand the (hypothetical)
Elbonian Measurement System? Do we then include three numbers each time we
give a measurement?
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