Wikipedia is a mess where style is not based on what is correct, but the preference of the individual contributor. Common error not usage creates confusion and damages the consistency and coherency of SI. If you want to make up your own rules you might as well continue to use USC where anything goes.
From: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 2014-07-14 00:35 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:54118] Re: Don't be a dunce! 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 Subject: [USMA:54111] RE: Don't be a dunce! No zeroes on the leading decimals? Tsk tsk tsk. :) -------- Original Message -------- 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]> Posted on Facebook and Twitter today: Don't be a dunce! http://MetricPioneer.com/Metrication-America David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 ----- End message from Harold_Potsdamer <[email protected]> ----- David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 ----- End message from Michael Payne <[email protected]> ----- David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
