What was the entry about? Where can it be found? Did you remove the FFU?
Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2004-05-18 11:28 Subject: [USMA:29839] Wikipedia > Last week, I made an entry on Wikipedia, > (which is an online public encyclopedia) > where I listed the dimensions in metres. > > A few days later someone edited the entry to > add the corresponding measurements in IFP. Their > comment was that Wikipedia was international > in nature, and that since that includes Americans > they were adding the IFP measurements. > > This led to a debate over the fact that > the whole world uses metric, and the > the biggest "excuse" that Americans have > for not adopting metric was that they are > not used to it. So adding the ifp only > propagates the problem. > > In any case, I'd like to make my point by > adding some other measuring unit used in the > world (by some group, however small), > using the same claim that since this is an > international site used by **fill in the > blank ** it would be appropriate to include > their measurement units. > > Does anyone know if of a non-SI, non ifp, > distance measurement unit used by some group in the > world that I could use, just to get my > point across? > > Stephen > >
