User talk:Morten

Talk:Autofellatio
I wasn't sure if you were watching the discussion, so I just thought I should let you know I had a new idea, if you want to take a look at the talk page. Taric25 —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 12:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Pearl necklace (sexuality)
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Centilitres
Hi Morten, though centilitres are used in Europe, this is not the case in Australia, and in America the use of centilitres is discouraged. See page 4 of. I know that the Bartenders have fixed on the centilitre, but for a general English-speaking audience, the mL is much more familiar. Cheers, Michael Glass (talk) 23:59, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Have a look at WP:UNITS, section "which unit to use", 2nd bullet. Since you agree that bartenders use cl, this unit should be used in all cocktail definitions. --Morten (talk) 13:53, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

The second point of the introduction says, "Familiarity: The less readers have to look up definitions, the easier it is to be understood." If we were writing just for bartenders, I would agree that centilitres would be more appropriate, but Wikipedia is for the general reader. Generally, English-speaking readers are more familiar with millilitres than centilitres, so millilitres have the edge for familiarity.

Ordinarily I believe in following the sources exactly, but in this case, there is no rounding error and all we are doing is moving a decimal point so I believe that it is better to use the more familiar unit. Remember that English-speaking countries only began to use the metric system in daily life in the 1970s, so they adopted the SI version of the system rather than the more elaborate version that was adopted in Europe. You will note that in the United States, the largest English-speaking country, the use of centilitres is discouraged. So you can see why the general English-speaking public is less familiar with centilitres than, for instance, the Danes. Best wishes, Michael Glass (talk) 23:20, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

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Fixed your talk page archiving
Hi! I took the liberty of fixing the auto-archiving settings at the top of this page. --rchard2scout (talk) 12:19, 27 May 2021 (UTC)