Perhaps Wikipedia simply uses the de facto format that most people use.
Common usage creates reality on the ground.

----- Message from Michael Payne <[email protected]> ---------
    Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:23:55 +0200
    From: Michael Payne <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:54116] Re: Don't be a dunce!
      To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>

Sorry the link should
be http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec10.html#10.5.3
   
  I wish Wikipedia would use this format.
    
    
   Mike Payne
    
   On 14 Jul 2014, at 04:51, [email protected] wrote:

Harold. Americans use commas or spaces. We love our freedom.

----- Message from Harold_Potsdamer <[email protected]> ---------
    Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 20:07:41 -0400
    From: Harold_Potsdamer <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:54113] RE: Don't be a dunce!
      To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>

Not only that, commas dividing thousands which should be spaces.
           
           
                                  
                         FROM: [email protected]
             SENT: Sunday, 2014-07-13 14:26
             TO: U.S. Metric Association[1]
             SUBJECT: [USMA:54111] RE: Don't be a dunce!

            

                     No zeroes on the leading decimals?  Tsk tsk
tsk. 
:)
 

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Subject: [USMA:54110] Don't be a dunce!
From: [email protected]
Date: Sun, July 13, 2014 11:22 am
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>

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