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|I've been adding metric units in parentheses after the imperial units to all my pages as a courtesy. I limit the number of significant digits to just what is necessary to give the proper impression of size, weight or whatever. If something is 30 miles away I usually write 30 mi (48 km), one inch is 1 in (2.5 cm), etc. although now we can even do fractions ({{frac|2|1|2}}). I feel that a metric-using reader would rather not stop and do a conversion because it interrupts the reading process and their train of thought. I know that's what I would prefer if the situation were reversed. The more friendly we are to folks from all different editions and countries, the more popular our wiki will be. |
|I've been adding metric units in parentheses after the imperial units to all my pages as a courtesy. I limit the number of significant digits to just what is necessary to give the proper impression of size, weight or whatever. If something is 30 miles away I usually write 30 mi (48 km), one inch is 1 in (2.5 cm), etc. although now we can even do fractions ({{frac|2|1|2}}). I feel that a metric-using reader would rather not stop and do a conversion because it interrupts the reading process and their train of thought. I know that's what I would prefer if the situation were reversed. The more friendly we are to folks from all different editions and countries, the more popular our wiki will be. |
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+ | |Here is the proposal by [[User:Fw190a8|High admin FW]]: [[Forgotten Realms Wiki:Units of measurement]]. |
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+ | |- [[User:Darkwynters|Darkwynters]] ([[User talk:Darkwynters|talk]]) 19:57, October 15, 2014 (UTC)}} |
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Rather than proposing a major change to our policy, I had another thought, which is to make a single page listing the units and measures used in the Realms (including, but not necessarily limited to U.S. standard) that explains how to convert them into metric and vice versa. Individual links like "foot" and "pound," that might be written into a creature or character description would then redirect to this page. I'd happily write up a draft if people are interested.
Alternately, we could have separate pages for each unit but that probably isn't necessary in my mind.
We already have a bit of an unwritten policy to use metric units in parentheses after Imperial/US units.
Here in Australia, we're fairly familiar with the Imperial/US units. They used to be standard, our rulers mostly still have feet and inches on them alongside centimetres. Plus, they stay familiar through American sources like D&D. So, personally, I didn't see the need to convert to metric.
What did you have in mind, an out-of-universe help page sort of thing, or an in-universe article on measuring systems in the Realms?
It seems to be rather inconsistent across the wiki. I've seen a couple of pages that do but I generally don't and our official policy states that we use the same units that WotC and TSR do (which means that unless they switch to metric, Imperial's the way to go). Most wikis generally choose between one or the other: Wookieepedia is all in metric, the Pathfinder wiki is all Imperial. I'd generally prefer to stick with one rather than both, but I recognize that a lot of people use metric and it's fairly cumbersome to convert units you're not familiar with so I'd be open to using both if there's a wide consensus. My proposal is sort of an attempt at a halfway approach, providing an explanation of how to convert each unit to metric.
We could also alternately have separate articles for each unit, but I thought a consolidated page might be better.