Talk:Banksia ilicifolia

leafed/leaved
Is it Holly-leafed Banksia or Holly-leaved Banksia? &mdash; 85.211.181.251 17:13, 20 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Common names are rubbery. But the Australian Plant Common Names Database, Flora of Australia Online and FloraBase all refer to it as "Holly-leaved Banksia". Hesperian 23:57, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Articles to add

 * Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:46, 11 March 2010 (UTC) done Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * this Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:19, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * ,, ,, , , ,  and  Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:28, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

All looked at now, and either added or not (those had only very peripheral mention) Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:13, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Precision of units conversions
The first paragraph of the article contains the phrase -

It is generally a tree up to 10 metres (33 ft) tall ...

The "33 ft" is much more precise than the "10 metres". The 33 ft means 33 ft, not 32 ft and not 34 ft. The 10 meters, with only one significant digit shown, and taken in context, means something like 8-12 meters. These two phrases, "10 metres" and "33 ft", have different precision and hence different meaning.

This situation occurs all over the place, of course. Most (all?) books I've seen deal with this the lazy way, i.e., they give a precise conversion of an imprecise number.

Can we do better? Are there any guidelines about this issue?

Dr Smith (talk) 00:36, 7 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Agree -what would you like me to round it to - 30 ft or 35 ft? I've often done to nearest 5 ft in these situations. Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:29, 7 November 2012 (UTC)


 * In this instance, I like 35 ft better. I don't think it matters much. I was really asking if there was a general policy on this kind of thing. If not, should we try to come up with one? Dr Smith (talk) 00:52, 8 November 2012 (UTC)


 * There's a guideline at MOS:CONVERSIONS.--Melburnian (talk) 01:13, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

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