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delete it myself as I was on useability patrol not PoV patrol). If I'm reflexively reverted on this cleanup spree, I urge others to actually look at the changes I made and reintegrate as many of them as possible without a flame/revert war ensuing, especially a) the reduction of utterly pointless geekery and organizational name tossing, and b) the much more consistent language so that we always know precisely what set of units is being discussed in what clause. There were many other clarifications and grammar/wording twiddles as well. I.e., it would be a mistake to revert the lot because someone disagrees with three details of the 50-something-detail overhaul. —
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either a) government incompetence, b) bad programming, or c) (most likely, really) that the points of measurement were different, e.g. from the furthest possible point to still be considered "on target" to the opposite furthest point, vs. the exact inverse of that determination. The underlying question is necessarily an approximation anyway, because we are not talking about geometric points, but landmarks. How far is it from my house to the mall? You'll get at least as big a variance as you are seeing in your data if you consider "my house" and "the mall" to be the center points of each, or the property boundaries of each on the inner side of the measurement. —
1265:(2), intolerant of current, which is irrational: There isn't anything special about content "X" just because it is parentheses; for example "(Jones ain't gonna play in the 2007 championship)" is unacceptable inside parens as outside; parens do not magically transform the nature of the content inside them in any way. Furthermore, we have longstand principles elsewhere that the first occurrence of an acronym, or another form of shorthand, is given in full. And other concerns. The point is, the current text is conflicting with standard WP practice. — 2660:. Writing "4x4" for "four-by-four" actually helps disambiguate, for actual measurements, "4 in x 4 in", the space would be required, so maybe just say "use spaces", period. My main thrust with this was that x="by" and ×="times" are not the same thing and shouldn't be confused. It's another one of those things, though, that if the MOS recommends something wrong, people will just ignore it, and MOSwarriors will use AWB to "fix" it, and people who know it is wrong will revert that, etc., etc., and people will fight over something trivial. — 346:. And this has nothing to do with "web style" whatever that might be. It's simply modern style. The argument you present is essentially the same for sub-scripting numerals like "3" and "9" because that is how typefaces in the eighteenth century printed them. We don't use "older books" as our style guide mentors for a reason. What was considered good style in 1872 often is not what is considered good style today (or rather "to-day" if we were going by "older books"). — 304:
that has fortunately be given the finger by WP, and is on the decline offline as well, but not fast enough for my tastes; or using curly quotes in print, and to my chagrin more and more online, which add no functionality/disambiguation at all, just because they look "pretty". 2) Percentages are not actually a unit of measurement, but rather a phrase; it's simply latin for "out of each one hundred" – "2%" is simply a funky abbreviation for "two
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e.g. regarding ligatures.) Non-breaking spaces are harder to enter than normal or no spaces; thin spaces (breaking or not) are not only harder to enter, but also are not that well supported (not as bad as few years ago, but still not well enough). The pragmatic approach therefore is no space between a number and a percent sign – some argue the same way for other symbols, like ‘kg’ – or between dots and letters in abbreviations (e.<
2540:. The former are dimensions (among other things, as in automotive usage), not mathematical formulas or formula fragments. If I smack you in da head wit' a big chunk o' wood, that headache generator was a "two-by-four" (if you were lucky; could have been a 4x6!), a "2x4", which is not spaced and uses a normal "x", not a "two-times-four", which is "2 × 4", spaced and with a different symbol. Don't confuse math and phrase. — 2636:. Find it, SMcC? They're just after the big black word "Insert". Now, I understand the distinction you've made, which is going to be hard for many readers to understand. But I agree that the distinction is worth making if there's consensus to adopt it. Three issues: (1) is it established usage, and does any other authority suggest its use?, and (2) it's a very bunched-up look, (3) does 1433:
the advantage of not altering line spacings, and copy-pastes better than an ordinary superscript. I'm curious, do you mean you cannot read it because it is too small, or because it does not display correctly for you? As for the question of superscripts, I would like a little better definition of what is being discussed. All superscripts on units, or only on non-metric ones? —
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symbols) be used. Therefore, I think that it is best to contrast between systems, e.g. {{sq mi to km2|10|abbr=yes}}, {{convert|1250|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}, 10 cu yd (7.6 m²). I also think that because these are the most commonly seen ways of abbreviating imperial and metric units, it would be easier to gain consensus for this proposal than trying to
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replaced for different reasons. A major obstacle to general improvement are standardised keyboard layouts which seem hard to change. Previously it also was encoding and font availability, but at least the former has mostly gone with the advent of UTF-8 (the reasonable mapping to Unicode), the latter varies.
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The binary prefix section was mired in a ferocious dispute for 6 months and had just become stable. I was concerned that the technical errors would start another dispute. I only voiced my concerns on the talk page and not by editing the main page. I asked Fnagaton to look at the binary prefix section
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You removed the fact that the historical prefixes were an official standard. For the past two years this style guideline has portrayed the choice between common usage and the "standard" prefixes. The choice is between the previous standard and a new standard. The guideline should say the industry is
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Earlier version of this style guide implied that the traditional binary prefixes were haphazardly chosen by conniving marketers and slipshod engineers. That is not the case; the traditional binary prefixes were codified in ANSI/IEEE standards. The standards originations have attempted to convince the
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Forgive my questioning attitude, please: convince me that these templates are useful in the normal scheme of things. Isn't it easier to simply type the date? Will other editors know how to use them. (Mostly not, I think.) And do the templates work with IE 6? And since the subsection goes to pains to
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Oh, duh. I was looking below that in the "Symbols" section. I don't see the point of having two lines of click-to-insert symbols, myself. Honestly, I really don't use that thing down there at all; I have a menu bar popup widget that lets me insert characters into whatever field I'm in in whatever
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SandyGeorgia notes above that the superscripted characters are too small to read on her screen, and I find that when I load IE (with basically all default settings, at a reasonable text size) they are in fact quite hard to read. Restricting editors to use only that way of writing superscripts would
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well that's not resolved: I was not aiming at something may be called "web-style". I think we try to come nearer to the good style of printing nice books. And if you take a look to older books, then you will see that there are mostly spaces in front of the %. Even better - the wikipedia now supports
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Less flippantly, there are two not necessarily conflicting ways of looking at this: 1) It's simply a typesetting convention like putting end-punctuation inside quotations even if it doesn't belong to the quoted material, an incredibly stupid and annoying American habit (I can say that; I'm American)
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use the superscripts because they are rarely encountered with the superscripts (outside of wiki, anyway). Whereas, metric/SI units are commonly encountered with the superscripts. In fact, NIST and SI handbook prescribe that only the superscript way of showing these abbreviations (actually they're
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I think it still is the best approach for Knowledge (XXG), being mostly read in web browsers, to omit the space before ‘%’ and ‘°’ (with ‘′’ and ‘″’), but if this was primarily a seldomly edited print product non-breaking thin spaces would probably be preferable. They are both representing units of
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That particular page uses an unusual character that is a superscript 3 (³), rather than making a superscript out of an ordinary 3 (), which is a fairly unusual way to go about it. The special character (which is available under "Symbols" in the Edit Tools box below the page-editting box) does has
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The opening sentence is totally wrong. The historical prefixes are not the current IEEE prefixes. That is what the conflict is about. The style guideline from before your current edits is factually correct. Your current wording is not. You should have proposed your changes on the talk page before
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This is not at all saying we should embrace technical limitations as “modern style”, because typography is about readability, i.e. aiding the readership. We’re in a transitional phase where recent common tools slowly approach the utility of traditional professional ones, which they already largely
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I have corrected the opening and reduced the waffle. The guideline is not the place to have a history lesson, that should be for articles instead. I've also clarified the section about consensus because it was misleading and added confusion by mentioning both types of prefix in the same sentence.
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The difference is so insignificant I could run that distance in under a minute. Just approximate. That's what we have to do when we have two "reliable" sources that differ in their calculations. Just average the distance and call it "approx. x.yz". NB: I suspect that the cause of the error is
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What some may call web-style is indeed a result of (partially just perceived or previous) technical restrictions, a successor to typewriter-style that brought us straight quotes and apostrophes among other ugliness. (Any print text actually makes a lot of compromises compared to handwritten text,
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on this issue. The problem really only comes up with English measures and the sense of the earlier discussion was to discourage decimalizing them because of the problem of “false precision”. Certainly 2.75 in isn’t a problem since it’s a nice, neat conversion, but when you get to 2-3/8 it gets
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In the late 1990s various standards organizations defined new units that were codified by the IEC. These new units clarify the difference between decimal and binary but have not been adopted by the vast majority of the computer industry. In 2005 the IEEE recommended using the IEC units but even
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I changed any facts or nuances about where things stand right now, or balance (though I note a very challenging HTML comment in there from a GiBi-booster that should probably come out (not only because it's PoV-pushing, but because extended commentary on rationales belongs on talk pages); didn't
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Exact opposite opinion as Jimp; many do in fact write "2-3/4"; this has been standard style since long before I was born. The unicode fraction are an accessibility problem for many (I don't just mean screen reader; they are so small that many cannot read them even with their glasses!), and the
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I don't think "feet squared" (and similar expressions) are all that common in WP, but I could be wrong. They aren't hugely common in English, to begin with. 3 meters squared would be 9 square meters, or 9 m. The exponent indicates the unit is squared, not the unit and the quantity. —
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All things being equal, 2.75. Is there some particular case where fractions, improper fractions, or mixed fractions are preferable for some reason? Unless that is extremely common, I would say it is enough to say "avoid fractions unless you have a good reason" and be done with it. —
1252:(1) It's nothing to do with laziness; it's from the reader's point of view. (2) No one is suggesting compulsion—just permission if (as always implied) there's consensus among contributors to an article, and usage is consistent within it. Can you revisit your comment in this respect? 992:
I'm keen to implement the draft soon at MOS and here: it's taken a lot of my time and I have to get on with real life. What we have is an immense improvement on the existing situation. However, there are a few remaining issues. I'm calling for prompt, definitive feedback on these.
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They are actually getting a lot of buy-in in infoboxes. It's not such much whether J.Q. Editor will use them, but people who care about microformats will, with AWB. And some of us (my hand is raising) do it manually when editing anyway. I don't think MOS should tell people they
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In the 1950s, K was used for 1024 as in 8K words. By the 1970s, kilobyte (KB) and megabyte (MB) were common as binary units. In 1986 the IEEE (and ANSI) codified the computer industry's usage of binary units. In the 1990s several more standards affirmed the usage. The IEEE 100,
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wants to use the trip planning software to calculate intermediate distances to exits, but I don't think it's valid, because a primary source that measures its own roadways disagrees with a third-party source that has numerous places in the process that errors can enter.
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rather than the mulitiplicadtion sign, but we've all been compromising in this overhaul.) It does say only that it's "acceptable", after talking of the real multiplication sign (which below is billed as spaced). So I'd say it's not wrong to write
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It would be great to have a source, why there is no space between a number and the % - as far as I know, in good typesetting there should be a small space - so a space is far better than no space. Well a source for that rule would be great. --
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would write "64x64 pixels", Yankee style, but write in a math context "64–×–64=..." If I encounted "64–×–64 pixels", I wouldn't wig out. Might change it, but I wouldn't grumble in the process (and yes I would if I found "64x64=..." in a math
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examples, and the numerator ‘5’ could be a ‘3’ for all I can tell. The {{frac}} template seriously messes up line spacing. The hyphen – with no spaces – has long been the standard way to write mixed fractions, in my experience.
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what VNEA is; the zeroless format is used in sporting broadly and generally (oh, and it is the Valley National Eightball Association, which is doubly misnamed since it has branches in Europe and Australia now, and they also have
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I have no problem with allowing the writing out of units with their first usage; it is consistent with the rest of our style guides and probably proper usage, if we think about it. However, should not the example for Option 2
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function, which yields a huge superscript, making the lineage lumpy. MJC has used ... yes, it's there down the bottom, a little "2" superscript in the edit tools. Why not make this compulsory for 2 and 3 (not m but m²)?
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a modern style but just a workaround - and if the workaround no longer is necessary, it's a style of nescience (which definitly is the case with a lot of german writers) or maybe ignorance. (Not) By the way: even the
2658:, I'd wager, but I don't have it on my lap right now to be sure. Re: #2/#3 which seem to be the same question/issue, when referring to "four-by-four", the use of the mult. symbol as in "4 × 4" is simply "incorrect 689:(and if the binary prefixes article were heavily revised). Neither of those is likely to happen without stirring up a new, massive fight though; so finding a better phrase than "IEEE prefixes" will have to do. — 1123:
Waitaminit! I barely had time to sleep... (4) or (3). Option 4 is barely behind option 2 in acceptability level with my input counted, and one day is not long enough to gauge consensus on something like this. —
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I don't think so; Knowledge (XXG) is no longer a child, and is quite able to formulate its own style guide to suit its own unique mode, readership and functions. Please log on if you want to debate the matter.
283:(4th ed.) is silent on the matter, suggesting (as it is the most concise of the world-renowned style guides) that the matter has never been seen as controversial or even confusing enough to bother mentioning. 1293:"The bridge, only 10 metres (33 feet) across, stretched for 8 kilometres (5 miles) across the bay", and subsequently "The other bridge, only 5 m (17 ft) across, stretched for 10 km (6 mi) across the bay" 2640:
look bad, and will it be misunderstood in context? I ask the first question because, although WP is quite capable of making its own style decisions, I'd be less comfortable if we were "going it alone".
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features (or similar smart font techniques). They always belonged to the font and had not to be done manually by the typesetter. I’m actually reading WP with Georgia as my default font which uses them (
1191:"The bridge, only 10 metres (33 ft) across, stretched for 8 kilometres (5 mi) across the bay", and subsequently "The other bridge, only 5 m (17 ft) across, stretched for 10 km (6 mi) across the bay" 778:, Seventh Edition, 2000 is a good example of the previous standards. If the Eight Edition uses the IEC prefixes, the industry may still follow the units that were defined in the Seventh Edition. -- 105: 100: 95: 83: 78: 70: 1817:
concerning how we can more neatly express 27 m × 27 m. Aluvus, how then, do you express three square metres when it's abbreviated in brackets? (As opposed to 3 metres squared, or 9 square metres.)
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style guides even recognizes any difference between "x" and "×", so the question is kind of moot. You won't find that even in a truly huge and comprehensive modern general-usage style guide like
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number style guide and don't find mention of it. Also, I like the "and common usage" phrasing; oviates the need to keep adding exceptional examples every time someone thinks of a plausible one. —
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I was trying not to sound US-centric, and expecting that baseball would not be the only sport to which this applied. Not sure it has to be specified, since no one else will use the 'concession'.
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I'm not feeling that strongly on it either way. I was addressing more the possibility of if we "banned" sup for square footage/meterage, not to ban it for math usage. Moot point, I think. —
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but none of that nonsense is necessary: we've got the tool box & the frac template. Note that the tool box is no good for denominators five, six, seven or anything greater than eight.
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passage. Perhaps it's just the feeling of my old English professor looking over my shoulder saying that if you use abbreviations in this manner it shows the laziness in your writings. —
1078:(2) or (4). I'm flexible, but I've gotten used to the no-dots look and it gives better consistency in appearance throughout ... not to mention that simple rules are easiest to remember. 890:
Right. Per Fnagaton just above, I "should" have done just what I did, and you "should" have simply fixed any unintentional errors in it, instead of going on an on about it, SWTPC6800.
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under the new wording, and I'd do that myself. But the bunched-up ex now acceptable; therefore, there's no grounds for complaint at the FAC page. Others please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Thanks on the "cubitc"—done. Confused as to which term to use for the system; and as to whether sq ft and ft squared are an issue. 3 metres squared is 9 square metres, yes? And when
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OK, I'm updating the draft accordingly. Will avoid using the nice edit tool, and won't even mention it: surprised it's been included down there, frankly, if IE screws it up.
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industry to use the new IEC prefixes but the industry does not see a benefit and has stayed with the previous standards. Use of IEEE and IEC standards is strictly voluntary.
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say that, at the start of an article, the dates of birth and death shouldn't be tangled up with location (and presumably age at death, too, it confuses things, doesn't it?
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They are used broadly in sports, so don't limit to baseball (though a batting average example would be familiar to most American and Canadian readers); for example my VNEA
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This seems like a "no original research" issue. As much as your colleague would like to do better, this is primarily an instrument for reporting third-party information.
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and its talk page. The West Virginia Department of Transportation gives a length of 160.52 miles. But, when using trip planning software, the length comes out as 159.75.
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is primarily an instrument for reporting existing information, rather than new, fresh, original research (i.e., the results of which haven't already been published).
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AND MORE: Should the subsection be called just "Unit symbols" rather than the current "Unit symbols and abbreviations"? MCJdetroit says that the abbreviations
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Your changes imply (through use of the phrase "IEEE prefixes" and phrases like it) that the IEEE continues to endorse the use of decimal prefixes, which is
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OPTION 4: (Tony-modified version of Option 3): no dots after metric abbreviations; dots after imperial units are acceptable, but dot-free is recommended
757:, Seventh Edition, 2000 is the most current one to defined KB, MB, and GB as binary units. This just recognizes the computer industry's common usage. 524:
All that I can find about precision deals with conversions and geographical coordinates. But what about precision in measuring? The specific case is
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So can you state your question in precise terms; unsure what we should be deliberating on—are you proposing that a new point be incuded in MOSNUM?
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indicating the correct way to use them, and mentioning that they are required, if birth dates are to be included in hCards produced by infoboxes.
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dimension 1, which of course also applies to ‘rad’ for instance, and they are not made of letters, unlike ‘rad’. That is what makes them special.
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A rewrite should explain the benefits of the IEC prefixes and note that the historical prefixes were also codified in standards. The IEEE 100,
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especially true. I personally suspect the MOSNUM would be just as well off if that entire first paragraph were excised in favor of a link to
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Is this the source you are looking for? "When is used, a space is left between the symbol % and the number by which it is multiplied ...".
257:(subscriber link) specifically notes that no space should be used. Knowledge (XXG) is not at all alone in the way it handles percentages. — 1455:
I can't see it; too small. Can you fix it? That article appears on the main page next week, and the main editor is no longer on Wiki.
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You're the only one, SMcC. Let's list this as an issue that needs to be resolved SOON. I'm keen to implement the text in MOSNUM alone.
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There is a ¾ in the edit box along with a ½, a ⅓, a ⅔, a ¼, a ⅛, a ⅜, a ⅝ and a ⅞. So 2¾ can be entered directly. Otherwise, use
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is now the sole example for dimensional expressions in the text of MOSNUM (I'm unhappy about the visual appearance and the use of
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well ... what I wanted to say is, that because of the technical restrictions of the www a style may have established, which is
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must not be used for a multiplication sign, which is rendered by clicking on the symbol in the edit tools below the edit box.
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The thing is that it is third-party information: use the program and tell it to go from the beginning to the interchange. --
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app, and I've used it for years, so I've never felt a need to learn a new and less functional way of doing that on WP. —
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a huge difference between 15 square miles and 15 miles squared (= 15 mi × 15 mi). Should this distinction be mentioned?
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Done. Changed "IEEE" used as an adjective to "historical". Also, removed the combative HTML comment mentioned above. —
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using a numeral and percentage sign with no space in between. This is standard usage in all web copy; I cannot recall
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The historical binary prefixes should not be called IEEE prefixes. The rewrite reads better but it is factually wrong.
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I'm very happy to insist on the use of the edit box for fractions, and to ban the hyphen (2-3/4 yuck). How about it?
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SMcC, you think it's worth cluttering the "Common mathematical symbols" subsection with a statement not to spell out
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automatic non-breakable spaces in front of the %. So please don't always argue with circle references. Greetings, --
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Thank you SWTPC6800. :) I also agree with SMcCandlish about the namedropping in the guideline, it was a bit much.
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The Unicode fonts are indeed a problem on IE6. I can only make out clearly the denominators ‘2’ & ‘4’ among
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Concur with MJCdetroit, and would also make it clear that superscripts are preferred in mathematical formulas. —
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OPTION 1 (as now and in the new draft): spell out main values throughout, abbreviate converted values throughout
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It is referring to baseball, not cricket. There would be very few batting averages in cricket between 0 and 1.
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Well, IE gets in the way of a lot of improvements. I hate it. It wouldn't be a Bill Gates invention, would it?
2866: 1536:). MJCdetroit's entry here brings up another point: I'm continually irritated by the use of the <sup: --> 1179:
This has just been raised by SMcCandlish and has previously been supported by him and Tony, unsuccessfully.
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OPTION 3: (SMcCandlish's proposal): dots optional after imperial unit abbreviations, but not after metrics:
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Huh? I count 2 before me saying (4) would be okay. It's still out-!voted, so I'll let it lie this round. —
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well, I removed the "resolved" with the unproofen claim -- even in the Knowledge (XXG) it's not clear, see
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Amen to that latter too, if I may get Wikipolitical for a moment. Anon editing, don't get me started... —
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Is this OK? "Squared and cubed metric-unit abbreviations are always expressed with a superscript number (
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making a radical change. If the facts are wrong a revert to the previous stable version is in order. --
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10:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC) PS: If you still feel it is not resolved, then remove the "Resolved" tag. —
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That one seems kind of silly to me. Who on earth is going to think that 3 m means 9 square meters?!? —
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symbols. And thus, instead of "squared imperial-unit abbreviations, we have "squared imperial symbols"?
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Isn't cubic feet often shorted to cu ft, not cubic ft? (Seriously confused about all the indenting.)
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The section "Dates of birth and death" should , I feel, make some reference to the four templates:
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OPTION 2 (change in policy): allow (not force) abbreviated main values on subsequent appearances:
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Huh? This has already been fixed. A big long history lesson isn't helpful here. Please read the
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I've added to the point thus: "*Numbers between minus one and plus one require a leading zero (
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Wikimedia did that for the French, if you read the bug report closely. We have no need for it.
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be there, under "Symbols", but I don't see it. No true-minus, division sign, etc., either. —
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Quite so; thank you. So check my addition of "an exception is .... and common usage such as
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07:00, 29 July 2007 (UTC) PS Does it get in the way of the "frac" template suggested below?
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Good point; I wasn't going to go there this round, but I've been thinking that all along. —
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which he did. I think the edits that you and Fnagaton made have improved the section. --
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Even better - the wikipedia now supports automatic non-breakable spaces in front of the %.
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which is really ugly on my screen): RAM is accessed at 3.072 MHz, with accesses
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couldn't decide - but they did last year, as I have seen a minute ago: in their
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Whatever VNEA is ... The current draft wording embraces this. Please sign.
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version and explain briefly if you find anything still wrong about it. —
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Except batting averages, which are never written with a leading zero.
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to the amount of geeky, off-topic detail and namedropping in it. :-) —
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so I don't know if it needs to be mentioned in this guideline. --
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Then why don't we just remain silent on this, as now?
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