Jimmy Wales wrote:
Personally,
I'd rather have it say, "Use metrics. Use only
metrics. Any use of American or Imperial units is punishable by
death.", but I doubt I could convince Wikipedians at large of the
merits of it :).
Fortunately, I think you're right. You'd never convince me of the
merits of it.
Well, know you have my sympathies ;-)
We changed our currency from Deutschmark to Euro a year ago, and people
still compare prices in Deutschmark...
I personally think it's only a matter of time until
the rest of the
world catches up to the U.S. and returns to using the English system
in all the cases where it is more sensible to do so. So we have a
responsibility to use both, to help them get ready for the change.
I think you forgot the ";-)" at the end of the paragraph. You don't
honestly think so, do you? (Of course, everyone can have an opinion, it
just strikes me as rather unrealistic)
Magnus