User talk:Fnagaton

Binary prefixes

Recently a minority of editors have been replacing all occurrences of KB/MB/kilobyte/megabyte with binary prefixes (KiB/MiB/kibibyte/mebibyte) on computer related pages where those binary prefix terms are not used in the system documentation, not used in the sources and not generally accepted as the correct type to be used. To force binary prefixes into articles where there are no sources for that system using such prefixes is not being consistent within the scope of the article. Also to make those changes reduces the useful content of the article and increases confusion due to the differing terms used. The debate is here. Wikipedia_talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Conflict with Manual of Style

If you are interested in seeing the guidelines get changed to avoid binary prefixes being forced onto articles and have any comments you would like me to consider then please add them below. Or if you want me to message you when the vote starts please add a note below. (Those that want to use binary prefixes in all articles do not comment here, go elsewhere. Any such edits by "binary prefix" zealots will be reverted as vandalism.) Fnagaton 22:31, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Please message me when the vote starts. I am not, in principle, against use of the Binary prefix in new systems. I am, however, very much against revisionism of well established customs during past eras of computing history. At a minimum, SI prefixes should ALWAYS be used on systems predating late 1998, when the Binary prefix movement was introduced. It is worth noting that in over 15 years the Binary prefix has still not taken hold and has only created the very market confusion that it attempts to circumvent.TopaTopa 23:49, 9 April 2007 (UTC)