User talk:Williadb

No need to abbreviate here
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --CliffC (talk) 00:51, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Still no need to abbreviate
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Acetylcysteine. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. There's no need to abbreviate here, 'hours' is exact and encyclopedic. --CliffC (talk) 03:53, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Unnecessary and unhelpful abbreviations - please explain
Is there some point to your wholesale changing of the unambiguous English words "hours" and "minutes" in various drug articles to "h" and "min"? Please reply here. Meanwhile, I'll be reverting these as I see them. --CliffC (talk) 04:24, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Data is vs. Data are
I don't think this change is needed. See here. ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 22:24, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Help me!
Some time ago I suggested some changes to the expression of units, most of which were accepted, some rejected. Of those rejected (most of them), suggested that 'hours' be changed to standard 'h' and 'minutes' or 'mins' be changed to 'min'. The reason for not accepting the changes was that 'hours' and 'minutes' (but not 'mins') are grammatically correct. There is no disputing this. However, introducing words in full for time but not other units relating to quantities such as concentration, amount, length and so on introduces inconsistencies. Why is time single out for not abbreviation, but (for example) grams or milligrams are not? If time is not to be abbreviated, then other units should also not be abbreviated. The above is consistent with by far the majority of scientific journals, particularly chemistry, medicine, engineering and related topics.

I am new for processes involved with Wikipedia, so I hope all of the comments are acceptable.

Please help me with...

Williadb Williadb (talk) 07:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Williadb. Changes to Wikipedia's style guidelines should be discussed at appropriate talkpage. The style guideline that affects units of measurement is at MOS:UNITNAMES, and changes to it should be proposed at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. If you make your suggestions there, other members of the community can then comment on them and potentially implement them. Yunshui 雲 水 08:46, 9 April 2018 (UTC)