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, 10:43, March 1, 2007What's Conservapedia's style for use of metric and "English" units in scientific material?
The accent is part of the guy's ''name''. American spellings accept the accent mark within names. --[[User:David R|David R]] 12:47, 16 February 2007 (EST)
The accent is part of the guy's ''name''. American spellings accept the accent mark within names. --[[User:David R|David R]] 12:47, 16 February 2007 (EST)
== "Metric" vs. "English" units in scientific articles? ==
While changing [[Earth]] from a prank entry to a real entry, I realized I don't know what the Conservapedian community prefers with respect to style. For over a century, scientific writing has always used "metric" units exclusively while in commerce and everyday life the United States uses the "English" system (pounds, inches, feet, miles, gallons, etc.)
(Formally and properly the "metric" system is called SI for "système international") The system used in the United States is sometimes called "English" but is properly called "U. S. Customary" because some of the units are different; gallons, for example).
The metric system has been legal in the United States (though of course not mandatory) since 1866, and all U. S. measurements have for a very long time been legally defined with reference to the metric system, i.e. the legal definition of one inch is 25.4 mm.
What style is preferred in Conservapedia for clearly scientific material:
1) Use whatever is convenient, i.e. used in whatever source was consulted for writing the material; as a service to the reader, add a conversion later at any convenient time.
2) Use U. S. Customary, with metric equivalent in parentheses: "The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 93 million miles (150 million km)?"
3) Use SI, with U. S. Customary equivalent in parentheses: "The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 150 million kilometers (93 million mi)?"
4) Use U. S. Customary only: "The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 93 million miles?"
5) SI only: "The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 150 million miles?"
(Choice 3 will probably make Conservapedia the target of jokes).
P. S. Google will convert units for you. If you "search" for "50 cc in fluid ounces" Google returns "50 cc = 1.69070113 US fluid ounces" [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 05:43, 1 March 2007 (EST)