User:NebY/past discussions

Here are some of the past discussions about the use of imperial and metric units.

WT:MOSNUM
On 8 October 2014, this discussion began on the administrators' noticeboard. It led to the community authorising sanctions regarding the use of imperial and metric units in UK-related articles. Editors were tired of the conflicts that took place in editing articles, on article and project talk pages, and over the Manual of Style. To give some idea, here are links to the discussions on the Manual of Style (dates and numbers) talk page that began in just the 12 months before 8 October 2014.

RFC - Clarifying Units of Measure in UK Geographical articles

Inches - ok?

A Modest Proposal

Imperial measurements


 * Policy implications


 * Arbitrary break


 * Arbitrary break


 * Reference to Driver Location Signs


 * The RGloucester Proposal - User:RGloucester/units


 * Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Units


 * Seriously?


 * RFC: Proposals to rewrite WP:MOSNUM on UK units of preference


 * Response to questions on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Units


 * User:Kahastok/Units and User:Kahastok/Units2


 * Survey


 * Threaded Discussion


 * Above RfC


 * Tidying up


 * Distances in miles/kilometres


 * The Times style guide link


 * Metric for everything


 * Imperial for everything


 * This is absurd


 * Current state of discussion


 * Proposal on wording


 * We need direction


 * Principles for choice of units: a proposal


 * The Kahastok Proposal - User:Kahastok/Units

Human height

What exacly is a "UK engineering-related article"


 * Proposal

Should MOSNUM reflect this oddity of UK marketing?


 * Revised proposal

A better link (UK units)


 * What does The Times recommend?


 * Contents of The Times Style and Usage Guide


 * Comment on the guidelines as presented above


 * Proposal to remove the link to The Times Style Guide


 * Clarity of the UK metric/imperial guidance

Wither style guide

UK horses' heights


 * Please lend a hand

UK articles inconsistency - metric or imperial

Which units should be primary for the height of a UK statue of a UK politician?


 * For the sake of future newcomers


 * SPI Filed


 * Pointing out the obvious

What is the basis for the bias towards metric for UK related articles?


 * In reference to the above


 * UK Adoption of the Metric System


 * A proposal to tweak the wording


 * Another subheading


 * Closing the discussion on the removal of the advice about milk


 * Some information that may be helpful


 * The studiedly uncommitted EEng steps forward to propose a way by which this might possibly be resolved


 * The UK bottled-milk dispute rages on


 * Compromise proposal


 * Support or Oppose?


 * EEng gives up


 * The dairy of Anne Frank