I changed the floppy disk info in German, French, and some other languages
where metric was missing. And nobody so far has taken them out.
Can you give me some articles that need changing and I'll make an attempt?
I noticed they re-did the whole page format.
Euric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, 2004-05-31 09:45
Subject: [USMA:30019] wikipedia
> >Of MightyChimp
>
> Euric,
>
> Have you given up on Wikipedia because you got involved in battles over a
> few pages? I rarely get my edits undone because very few are
controversial.
> A good guideline for permanent change over a long period is "Do the easy
> stuff first" and "Fight the battles you can win".
>
> So forget about persuading people to rename things (e.g. '3.5 inch'
floppy).
> Concentrate instead on measured values where no metric equivalent is given
> ('Fahrenheit', 'acres', 'feet', 'pounds' etc). Addition of metric values
> would be unlikely to provoke anyone. You should be able to manage anything
> up to 30 unreverted edits in an hour, rather than several days fighting
over
> half a dozen.
>
> Terry
>
>
