Talk:Kimball Island

Inclusion of SI unit
Hello User:JPxG, you reverted an edit where I included the SI unit meter in this article as per MOS:UNIT, prior to or after thanking me! I accept the thanks, but why revert? Thanks Avi8tor (talk) 17:26, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * It's kind of an edge case; while I usually agree with the addition of conversion templates (and I appreciate someone having taken the effort to format one), in this specific instance it didn't seem necessary. The fact that it's betweeen yards and meters means that it's going to be 600 either way; and on top of that, it was in the middle of a quote from a source, so it feels to me like it'd be incorrect to change the text unless the change was bracketed (per MOS:QUOTE). Alternatively, we could come up with some abstruse way to reframe the entire sentence to avoid this, but it seems like way too much trouble when the number doesn't even change between the two units. jp×g 13:58, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree it's an edge case, the reason I do this is because I live in a country that is metric and need the metric unit, the same applies to millions of readers in many English speaking countries worldwide where anyone born after about 1960 has no idea what a foot or yard is, which is why it's necessary to have both as stated in MOS:UNIT. 600 yards is most probably a rounded estimation, so having both helps someone in say Australia or South Africa! They might even think... Wow, I didn't realize yards and metres are a similar size, which they are, it would be appreciated I'm sure, by many readers. Avi8tor (talk) 17:29, 20 December 2021 (UTC)