Talk:International System of Units/Archives/11/2021

The "notes" section on this article
I've not seen any other article that has such an incredibly long "Notes" section... it's kind of ridiculous when a footnote contains both a reference to another footnote, two external links to the same site not formatted as references, and an indented numbered list quoting the US law pointed to by the links, and this is all a note on the statement "The SI has an official status in most countries ... including the United States". Sane articles just include a ref tag pointing to the page with the relevant law on it and rely on the reader to click on it if they (for whatever reason) don't believe that such official status exists. Does it really need 45 line note explaining the entire history of laws leading up to the present? That's just one example, the whole section is like that and it's kind of bizarre. --A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 06:25, 2 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I agree, and think that most, if not all, of the notes should be deleted. Everything in the article should be referenced directly to reliable sources, and the thinly veiled original research buried in these notes should be eliminated. -- DeFacto (talk). 06:53, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Table of base units
Currenly, the table includes a column for the Dimension symbols, but not the typical symbols. This is fairly confusing, since most readers are unlikely to have any familiarity with dimensional analysis, but at least some familiarity with the common algebraic symbols for SI units, and there is enough overlap to create some confusion; for example, T is both the dimensional symbol for time (unknown to most readers) as well as the more commonly known algebraic symbol for temperature. SI tends to list both sets of symbols together, as on page secion 136 of the SI brochure (9th ed), or just the typical algebraic symbols alone, as on their website. I think it'd be good to include a column for the typical symbols in the table here, too. Thoughts? Adrianrorheim -- (talk) 18:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Since around two weeks have passed and no one has yet complained, I've gone ahead and added the column. Adrianrorheim (talk) 08:16, 29 November 2021 (UTC)