User talk:Euric

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Cheers, Sam [Spade] 04:29, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Euric - welcome to Wikipedia. About your recent edits to Floppy disk: Metric specifications are no 1 worldwide now, agreed. But that's not the point here. It's a fact that these floppies have been called 5¼- and 3½-inch and that has to be seen in a historical perspective. The fact that the 3½-disk is actually 90 mm in size has also been clearly stated in the article. (It might have been called a "90 disk" or something similar, if it was invented 10 years from now :) And even when using the metric system, you'll sometimes run into "misnomers"; if you bought a 2½-litre car it is highly likely that it sports an engine with only 2,4895 litres of displacement. --Palapala 07:36, 2004 May 21 (UTC)

Hello, Euric. You may not know that Wikipedia has its own Manual of Style, making the style consistent across the hundreds of thousands of pages. Please note that Wikipedia does not use SI style for long strings of digits. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) for the standard style. So, editing pages for SI style makes them less consistent with the rest of the encyclopedia. -- hike395 17:15, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Euric --- there isn't a single czar of style for Wikipedia, these decisions are reached by consensus. You can certainly try and re-open to discussion by starting a comment thread at Wikipedia Talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Notice that Wikipedians put new discussion at the bottom of the Talk page, rather than the top. Also, you probably want to mark your discussion off from the rest by starting with == SI style ==, or something similar, to start a new section.

I wouldn't hold out much hope for converting over, however. You do realize that Wikipedia has >280K articles in English? Converting all of them over would be an incredible amount of work. But, feel free to start the discussion, if you wish. -- hike395 19:44, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)