Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Square chain


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The result was   procedural close. A merge should instead be requested. (non-admin closure)  Rcsprinter123    (vent)  @ 18:04, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Square chain

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propose merge with square feet Legacypac (talk) 06:23, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  07:18, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
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Even better thanks. Legacypac (talk) 07:56, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge to Chain (unit), which is a good article about a coherent topic, and should be expanded as necessary. Imaginatorium (talk) 07:54, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Or expand the article making it an article which is similar to square mile. :) It might be better as I believe.  :)  Shevonsilva (talk) 08:10, 10 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Procedural speedy close. Nom is recommending a merge, not a deletion. A merge request is the appropriate process. -- 120.23.175.177 (talk) 10:03, 10 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment – Another Cardarelli unit. However, Googling ["square chain" "square feet"] does get a couple of pages of hits, indicating that unit conversion sites do think it's significant enough to support it. – Margin1522 (talk) 20:57, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: The problem with "unit conversion sites" is that they are bound to suffer from "me-too-ism". A chain is a unit of length, therefore square chain is a unit of area, and a cubic chain is a unit of volume, and cubic chains per minute is a rate of flow etc etc etc. WP is not a dictionary, and so it should not have an entry for every headword, (or mathematically obvious combination of headwords), but should have articles on coherent topics. In this case, square chains were not used much, because the acre (1 chain x 1 rod = 66 x 6 ft, gosh I know that now) was the standard unit of area. Therefore all derivative units based on the chain should redirect to Chain (unit), which is already not a bad article. Imaginatorium (talk) 03:59, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
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