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
> 
> 

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