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- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 136 (section Proposal to avoid any preference for metric vs. customary units in UK)should use either "all-metric" or "all-imperial" main units throughout, despite the contrary guideline under "which units to use" for UK-related articles advising...313 KB (47,387 words) - 19:08, 3 June 2024
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 21 (section Example 1: Metric height/weight values for McKee)made to add metric units Pan Am Flight 103 but they were repeatedly removed. They were removed even if the original data source is metric. They were removed...31 KB (5,185 words) - 17:17, 1 November 2022
- months. Current consensus is that wikipedia uses predominantly units of the metric system but that exceptions allow for the use of imperial measurements to...446 KB (69,007 words) - 18:28, 13 March 2023
- consistently use metric, so related articles use metric as that is what local editors would naturally use. The UK uses a mix of metric and imperial, so...280 KB (43,645 words) - 18:41, 3 March 2023
- primarily be in the metric system as the UK officially uses the metric system and all other train articles (bar USA) are in the metric system. many thanks--Lucy-marie...64 KB (8,728 words) - 21:08, 26 October 2023
- according to the current general use by that country - ie metric for most countries and hp for the UK/US. Stepho talk 06:49, 18 July 2021 (UTC) Hi Stepho-wrs...29 KB (4,129 words) - 10:01, 5 August 2024
- the military, use metrics exclusively; a sizeable minority of Americans grew up with metrics (including Latinos); links to metric units can easily be...35 KB (5,523 words) - 17:48, 1 November 2022
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 93 (section Use of metric units in UK-related articles)view is a reasonable and realistic compromise: "For UK-related articles, the main units are metric except for fields in which imperial are still officially...265 KB (40,067 words) - 04:03, 4 April 2023
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 11 (section Protest to universal addition of metric measurements to US topic articles)reason, for asymmetric treatment of metric and traditional units: Future proofing. Sooner or later, both the US and the UK will acquire governments with enough...32 KB (5,270 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South America/Falkland Islands work group/Archive 1 (section Metrics: evidence of local usage, disagreement between editors and the resulting policy implications)that the uptake of metric measures is different from that in the UK. Like many UK websites, Falkland Islands websites use metric measures. See [[2]]...332 KB (52,986 words) - 06:52, 4 February 2023
- Europe discussion. Metric system is not only used by European countries, but by basically the whole world, except for the US. And the UK. and Burma. And...2 KB (354 words) - 05:28, 24 September 2020
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 23 (section Permitting removal of metric units: inconsistency in the Manual of Style)about metric units: Metric units are always acceptable if non-metric units are always given there is usually no need for metric units give the metric equivalent...49 KB (7,961 words) - 17:18, 1 November 2022
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 127 (section Clarifying policy on UK primary units)of units is a political issue. The UK is the obvious example - officially the UK uses the metric system, but metric units are almost never used by the...267 KB (41,006 words) - 18:41, 3 March 2023
- will do that for you. The metric measurements are a necessary evil in an article where non-metric measurements are normal (USA, UK, Canada). To include them...103 KB (14,559 words) - 17:59, 22 October 2023
- have a clue about hectares. The same applies to newly metric countries like Ireland and the UK. I welcome this debate. I put a lot of work into my editorial...50 KB (8,513 words) - 17:09, 1 November 2022
- metric system or vise versa. If an article is written in the metric/SI system only this leaves out a great number of people who do not use the metric...25 KB (4,012 words) - 15:34, 4 February 2023
- "think" in terms of metric measurements, despite some of their governments being officially metric for years. To use only metric units would actually...56 KB (8,896 words) - 15:35, 4 February 2023
- been largely metric since the start of the 20th century according to "UK metric timeline". Retrieved 2019-08-10. 1974 Maths teaching in metric in primary...64 KB (8,980 words) - 05:10, 28 May 2023
- wikipedia is largely read by people from the UK and the US, neither of whom are familiar with abstruse metric units such as hectares (which aren't even SI...35 KB (5,933 words) - 15:33, 4 February 2023
- between editors: Should clashes between rules be decided in favour of metric or non-metric units? Should recommendations be worded as suggestions or orders...96 KB (13,962 words) - 23:14, 25 March 2022
- existing articles improved in the campaign. It also shows a size increase metric which is both useful but ultimtately no substitute for article quality as
- them to metric or add additional metric commentary then go right ahead. By the way, imperial measures are still pretty widespread in the UK too possibly