The Wikipedia Manual of Style can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
The section on Units of Measurement are at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Units_of_measurement
At the top of the latter is this:
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The main unit in which a quantit
Jim-- I thought that Wikipedia's style guide required metric units (after
all it is an *international* encyclopedia), with inch-pound units in
parentheses after. I don't recall whether the parenthetical units are
optional or mandatory. I can see how that would create practical
problems. If l
One of the ways that we can promote proper SI usage is to correct errors
in that usage when used in public. Many emails have been posted to this
list telling of efforts, many successful, to do so.
One such set of public documents are those that appear on Wikipedia.
This system allows public ed
