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Please help me develop this topic!

This is a huge topic and I have very limited access to the internet right now. I have noticed that there are a lot of articles in wikipedia which deal with measurement units from a historic standpoint (listing the units of some particular historical system), but there are almost no articles which deal with measurement units from a conceptual basis (describing the conceptual origins behind measurement units).

In fact, proper terminology for discussing this topic, such as “anthropomorphic measurement units”, “anthropic measurement units”, and “anthropically scaled natural units”, are still esoteric and not in common use in the English language. I have written this article in an off-line text editor and uploaded it to wikipedia. Please forgive the messiness of the article and help refine it. I believe it is a good starting point. PLEASE add your thoughts and any refinements you can think up. I would like to see this grow into a good presentation of an area that is currently being neglected.

Thank You

Thank you so much for everyone (including software robots) who are contributing to this ongoing discussion. The article is taking shape and growing into a good presentation. Unitfreak (talk) 21:19, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Small error

Not sure how to change it myself but there is an error in the caption box for the flow diagram showing human bias in the formation of SI units. It reads that a Mole is defined as the number of carbon 12 atoms in one kilogram, i believe this should read in 0.012 kg. This is what i know to be true and is stated on the page for the mole. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.196.49.245 (talk) 00:57, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the correction Unitfreak (talk) 09:01, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think that this is a good article ...

... but mistitled. "Anthropic" is not the same as "Anthropometric" nor "Anthropocentric". Also, I am not sure of the reasonableness of any connection to the cosmological Anthropic principle. (Maybe the AP can speak to the question "why are there about 10³⁵ Planck lengths in a metre?" or similarly for the relationship between other natural units and the anthropometric counterparts. But it might be a stretch that someone in the know might view as OR. 96.237.148.44 (talk) 03:46, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Added links to these topics. 70.162.29.168 (talk) 04:06, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Other Units

I'm sure there are a great many units not already covered in this article that could be, and perhaps already have entries in Wikipedia. Fistmele, for example, was used to measure the brace height (distance between a bow's string and the bow itself) in archery, and is the length of a fist with outstretched thumb. Steamboat28 (talk) 11:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 Added links to these topics. [[Special:Contributions/70.162.29.168|70.162.29.168]] ([[User talk:70.162.29.168|talk]]) 04:06, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
+== Other Units ==
+I'm sure there are a great many units not already covered in this article that could be, and perhaps already have entries in Wikipedia. [[Fistmele]], for example, was used to measure the brace height (distance between a bow's string and the bow itself) in archery, and is the length of a fist with outstretched thumb. [[User:Steamboat28|Steamboat28]] ([[User talk:Steamboat28|talk]]) 11:28, 12 July 2010 (UTC)