Talk:Square metre

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Meter vs. metre

Metre is the wording used by S.I. so it whould be what the articles use and are named, while noting that meter is the common U.S. spelling as well as with redirects. Evolauxia 08:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:Facts&moreFacts seems to be systematically changing the articles on metric units to the American English spellings. I have placed a message on his user talk page asking him to justify this. If he fails to do so I will revert the articles to the original usage. Arcturus 17:49, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is no justification. WP:MOS is pretty clear: in neutral articles stick with what ever was first. Jimp 00:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I already gave my justification. Some people are just too dumb to understand. Though they would understand if it were about moving an article relating to fish from using "ghoti" in the title to using "fish". If I were to start an article relating to fish and used "ghoti" in the title, people surely wouldn't have any objections to moving it an article with "fish" in the title. "metre" and "ghoti" aren't phonetic, whereas "meter" and "fish" are. That's why they're better. When a word has a variant that's more phonetic than the other variant, it's best to use that variant. Besides Wikipedia is based in Florida. Facts&moreFacts 23:15, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some may be too dumb to understand others see your "justification" for what it is. "Ghoti" is not a valid spelling in any dialect but a joke invented by G. B. Shaw. As I'm sure you've noticed, English is not spelt 100% phonetically. This is something we've got to live with. Jimp 01:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall ever saying that English was spelled 100% phonetically. The only thing I said is that when a word has a variant spelling that's more phonetic than the other variant, it's best to use that variant. For that reason, the article drive-through would be better at drive-thru. Facts&moreFacts 03:38, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's your take on it. I don't agree and nor does the Manual of Style. If you want things changed go to the MOS Talk page. J i m p 00:15, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute is Done

The Law caught up with User:Facts&moreFacts ... evidently a socketpuppet of a known troublemaker as you can see from the notice on his user page. So I wasted my time with my below 'Oil on T.W.' effort following! The Metre has it!

FrankB 05:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

References

There is currently a request for references in this article. I don't think it's justified. The facts are as given, and are so widely known that references would add nothing. Any one of millions of sources could be quoted as a reference. Arcturus 17:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Intro Needs Math

The assertion in the intro that with each subsequent prefix the resultant square is double the magnitude of the squared areas (babbble babble Yuck! Time for bed)... or however that was worded, 'it' is not intuitive to those who do not have a solid foundation in math exponents, so IMHO, it needs justified with some math equations (Metas) demonstrating same. (hey, might open the eyes for someone in elementary or secondary school!) I've been away saving parts of Mississippi and Louisianna since July and forget all the math meta's, msot of which I've not bothered to learn, so if someone else could field this grounder??? (Hey! I just wondered by (and tried to help) when I saw the note complaining about the move in some debate about article names about temperature!) Thanks. FrankB 05:38, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Photo

What is the point of the accompanying photo? It is meaningless without anything to show scale. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.147.51.229 (talk) 01:57, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia where such things are the norm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.220.193.142 (talk) 23:48, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unicode symbol for square meter

There is no particular Unicode character for a square meter, other than the combination U+006D m LATIN SMALL LETTER M and U+00B2 ² SUPERSCRIPT TWO. The character U+33A1 ㎡ SQUARE M SQUARED is among the CJK Compatibility Ideographs, it is a squared font variant and not representative. --46.189.28.247 (talk) 17:46, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Number of people that can fit in a square meter

I removed a section named "Example" that stated that "One square meter can stand up to 5 people at the same time." It cited https://www.gkstill.com/Support/crowd-density/CrowdDensity-1.html, but that source does not say that one square meter can stand up to 5 people at the same time, it says that 5 people should be the upper limit for crowd sizes for safety purposes. Further down the same page there is a graph showing the flow rate for crowds with 7 people per square meter. Furthermore, the Itaewon Crush article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_Halloween_crowd_crush) discusses crowd densities exceeding 9 people per square meter. Bugbread (talk) 02:10, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]