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- 2 Reference articles
- 3 Revision history of Timeline of binary prefixes
- 4 Rational for Binary Prefixes
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- 24 Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Kilowatt-hour
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two things
Thanks for tidying this up. Only so you know, there would have been nothing untowards about leaving in the bit about how you came up with the new user name.
You are welcome to write a few straightforward paragraphs about powers of 1024 prefixes on your user page. Your outlook on this topic has not been the worry but rather, how you've tried to wedge your outlook into how the prefixes are handled on en.WP. The time may come to use them here. When it does, it'll likely happen fairly quickly and easily. Gwen Gale (talk) 08:55, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Reference articles
Thank you for your offer to help, which I gladly accept. Could you provide references to the papers by Horton and more recent publications you have in mind that can be used as references for criticism of the sloppy conventions around the decibel? You can put them on User talk:Boute/Decibel draft or on Talk:Decibel to keep decibel-related material together. Boute (talk) 09:17, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
I tried to find the original 1924 and 1929 papers by Martin by Googling BSTJ and discovered the complete BSTJ collection on the Alcatel-Lucent BSTJ site. A real treasure trove! Boute (talk) 14:24, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
Revision history of Timeline of binary prefixes
Could you be a bit more specific about what statements you want references for? I.e that certain machines were decimal vs binary? What I added summarizes a lot of the info in the timeline itself and is referenced there.--agr (talk) 18:41, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- Mostly what I meant was a reference for which computers use decimal storage and which ones binary; the reason for placing the tag at the end of the paragraph was to also include stated usage of '8K' and '65K'. If these are all covered by existing cites later in the article, then feel free to remove the tag. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 10:51, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Rational for Binary Prefixes
How about adding something like the following to the T2 list of why not to deprecate:
The computer itself does not account for the number of bytes using binary prefixes, but someone in the 1980s decided to report memory, file and HDD size in this manner. As such, the use of Binary Prefixes is only a convention. Altering this convention to agree with SI Prefixes could have been done at any time as Apple did in 2009; however, for some reason it just stuck this way for much of the computer industry.
Tom94022 (talk) 00:01, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
- You know more about the history than I do, so feel free to add this to the list if you feel it's important. I think the case against deprecation is overwhelming, but what the heck. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 09:37, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
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Knot (unit)
Please see Talk:Knot_(unit)#ISO_status. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 16:06, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks. I have replied there. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 17:04, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
General principles in WP:MOSNUM
Hi Dondervogel2
Here are some quotes that may be of interest to you:
The first two paragraphs of WP:MOSNUM:
This part of the Manual of Style helps editors to achieve consistency in the use and formatting of numbers, dates, times, measurements, currencies, and coordinates in Wikipedia articles. Consistency in style and formatting promotes clarity and cohesion; this is especially important within an article. The goal is to make the whole encyclopedia easier and more intuitive to use. Try to write so the text cannot be misunderstood, and take account of what is likely to be familiar to readers—the less they have to look up definitions, the easier it is to be understood. Where this manual provides options, consistency should be maintained within an article unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. In direct quotations, the original text should be preserved. The Arbitration Committee has ruled that editors should not change an article from one guideline-defined style to another without a substantial reason unrelated to mere choice of style, and that revert-warring over optional styles is unacceptable.[1] If discussion cannot determine which style to use in an article, defer to the style used by the first major contributor.
Here is the opening paragraph of Unit Conversions:
Where English-speaking countries use different units for the same quantity, follow the "primary" quantity with a conversion in parentheses. This enables more readers to understand the quantity. Examples: the Mississippi River is 2,320 miles (3,734 km) long; the Murray River is 2,375 kilometres (1,476 mi) long.
Other principles are scattered through the text such as advice on conversion errors.
I hope that helps:
Best wishes, Michael Glass (talk) 12:58, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you for taking the troubling of quoting this text from mosnum. What I meant was something more specific about units. I am suggesting it would be useful to precede the section entitled "Units" with some guiding principles about the choice of units, transcending the disccussion of "which units system?. For example
- Units are familiar and unambiguous
- If an article begins in one unit (eg yard) it does not switch to another (eg metre) half-way through
- If a unit is defined as one quantity (eg decade meaning ten years) it does not switch to another meaninf (eg decade meaning factor 10 in frequency) half-way through
- Dondervogel 2 (talk) 13:58, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
- I think that's a good idea in principle. However, I think we also need to look at the general structure of the whole section on which unit to use. I would need to flesh it out myself, but I think we need to begin with general principles and then work towards specific examples. At the moment the section tends to chop and change, and this causes duplications, and some confusion. An example of duplication is the advice to use miles on roads in the section on UK engineering articles, which largely duplicates the advice on using miles in the general section on UK articles, though arguably with a different, stricter, emphasis.
- The structure, with its emphasis on the exceptions rather than the general rule, means that UK engineering articles have their own subheading while 'all other articles' which includes a far larger array of articles, is simply a dot point.
- In short, I think there's a lot of work to be done to make the structure of the section more logical and consistent. However, I think that there is a heading waiting for your proposed addition: Which unit to use. Michael Glass (talk) 10:50, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
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- I was not aware of removing a citation. Which one did I remove? Dondervogel 2 (talk) 20:58, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
- Hmmmm, I don't see the removal I thought I saw earlier. Perhaps it was because I just woke up then and was undoing a lot of vandalism before that. However, this edit you made inserts a bare URL and I reverted that along with your previous edit explaining my revert of both as Unexplained removal of citations and insertion of non-preferred format.
- I guess never mind the removal. Sorry. —EncMstr (talk) 00:43, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
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Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Kilowatt-hour
I'm contacting everyone who has commented but who hasn't taken an explicit Support or Oppose position (or if you did, I missed it). In the interest of bringing this discussion to resolution, it might be helpful if you could do that. Thanks. EEng (talk) 12:58, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
- My initial position was to oppose because I thought it would contradict the International System of Quantities (ISQ). My position now is neutral. Rather than this very explicit rule for the kWh, why not replace it with the ISQ rule, with this as an example? That is something I would support. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 13:43, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
- I would support that too, though I think it would need to say something like "Where such usage is seen in sources treating the topic area of the article, and where there is no risk of ambiguity, spaces between multiplied units may be omitted." However, I think that would take a much wider discussion, especially since there isn't any issue right now for anything other than kWh, so it would seem like a rule to solve a problem which isn't yet a problem; we're having the kWh discussion because kWh, specifically, has become an issue. EEng (talk) 15:07, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
- Just because the problem hasn't been mentioned doesn't mean it's not there. Examples are nm vs Nm (or N m) for torque, ah vs Ah for electric charge, and ns vs Ns (or N s) for impulse, but there must be others. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 15:40, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
- I would support that too, though I think it would need to say something like "Where such usage is seen in sources treating the topic area of the article, and where there is no risk of ambiguity, spaces between multiplied units may be omitted." However, I think that would take a much wider discussion, especially since there isn't any issue right now for anything other than kWh, so it would seem like a rule to solve a problem which isn't yet a problem; we're having the kWh discussion because kWh, specifically, has become an issue. EEng (talk) 15:07, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
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Really, you do not need to pursue this with me. Your comments have implied that unless WP settles on a single unit symbol to use, then the articles will not be in harmony, with each other, or with supposed standards. And that indeed is what the discussions have been about. To me, you seem a little put out that I am challenging that assumption and your use of the word "harmonization" to describe it (since the word itself implies more). I am perfectly able to see what the thrust of the discussion is about, but I am also perfectly able to see the way words can be taken to multiple things at one time. I don't really have a way to see your intent, but your words are capable of multiple interpretation, and I'll feel free to deal with that in the way I think most appropriate. And most appropriately of all, I will continue to assume your good faith, which I have not doubted even when I take issue with your words. Please be aware that I am not attempting to be testy with you. I just have a different point of view. I hope that is not an issue in itself. You have seemed (to me) to be disappointed in the reception you have already received, in a greater measure than I think is called for. I don't think it's that others don't understand what you're saying either. It's clear enough to get through. May you be a peace with whatever outcome is there; I assure you that I will be. Evensteven (talk) 15:56, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
- Dondervogel 2, I agree with everything that Evensteven said, and I have similar feelings. However, I would have appreciated a note in the active discussions when you actually brought the issue to WT:MOSNUM to let involved editors know. Though bringing this to MOSNUM was certainly a sensible thing to do, actually bringing it up there after indicating that you were done with the discussion at Talk:Astronomical unit makes it seem like WP:FORUMSHOP, especially since you've now brought this up in at least four places. And though I agree with your characterization that your view is in the minority, I don't believe there were any editors involved in the discussion who "prefer not to discuss" it. —Alex (ASHill | talk | contribs) 16:26, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
- I am puzzled by both of the above posts.
- There is a clear majority against the adoption of a single harmonised unit symbol for astronomical unit. I do not understand the reason for this reluctance, but I accept it. End of story.
- As for forum shopping, the discussion started at Talk:Voyager 1 and was moved to Talk:Astronomical unit on advice of editors there, and that is where it stayed. Some editors (two I believe) expressed an unwillingness to continue the discussion at Talk:Astronomical unit. That is their prerogative.
- Dondervogel 2 (talk) 21:06, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
- I didn't notice that the word "here" was a link at WT:MOSNUM (my browser uses purple for visited links, very similar to the black of ordinary text), so I thought you were asking to continue discussion there. My mistake; I apologize. —Alex (ASHill | talk | contribs) 21:13, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
- Oh, I see. Now I understand the confusion. Apology accepted - I will be more carefully with my choice of words next time. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 21:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
- I didn't notice that the word "here" was a link at WT:MOSNUM (my browser uses purple for visited links, very similar to the black of ordinary text), so I thought you were asking to continue discussion there. My mistake; I apologize. —Alex (ASHill | talk | contribs) 21:13, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
- I am puzzled by both of the above posts.
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Just an idea
I see you don't do userboxes (or, indeed, a user page at all). But if you ever do, this is offered for your consideration:
1 GB ≠ 10243 bytes | This user prefers to use (and helps promote) IEC binary prefixes for powers of 1024. |
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- Thank you. I appreciate the thought. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 23:25, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
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FFT
""derived" yes, but "known" does not seem justified as Gauss did not publish this work" -- I thought it was published, but it took years until someone found the article. I don't have the reference, though. Whether anyone contemporary read the published copy, I wouldn't know. Gah4 (talk) 16:24, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- According to an article published by Heideman et al in 1984, "Gauss' treatise describing the algorithm was not published in his lifetime; it appeared only his collected works [10] as an unpublished manuscript". The publication date of this Ref. 10 is 1866. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 17:22, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- Cooley–Tukey_FFT_algorithm reference 1 seems to indicate that it was published in neo-latin. As I remember the story from years ago, it was the neo-latin that slowed down others finding it. It does say posthumous, but doesn't indicate unpublished. Is a "collected works" a published collection of unpublished papers? I could also wonder why we need two FFT articles. Gah4 (talk) 18:13, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, it was published, but not by Gauss and (more importantly) not in 1805, so I stand by my assertion that it was not "known" in 1805. "Collected works" normally refers to a collection of published papers in one volume, but in this case appears to include at least one unpublished ms. Even after publication it did not become widely known, and presumably Cooley and Tukey were unaware of it. I guess the text could be improved further by clarifying when it was finally published, and in what form. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 21:21, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- OK, I agree. I was thinking the 1800's, and it might be that "known in the early 1800's" would work, but yes, if he wrote it in 1805, and it wasn't published until later, it wouldn't be "known" in 1805. But we don't know how many people in the early 1800's might have read it, and not told anyone about it. Gah4 (talk) 23:27, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, it was published, but not by Gauss and (more importantly) not in 1805, so I stand by my assertion that it was not "known" in 1805. "Collected works" normally refers to a collection of published papers in one volume, but in this case appears to include at least one unpublished ms. Even after publication it did not become widely known, and presumably Cooley and Tukey were unaware of it. I guess the text could be improved further by clarifying when it was finally published, and in what form. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 21:21, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- Cooley–Tukey_FFT_algorithm reference 1 seems to indicate that it was published in neo-latin. As I remember the story from years ago, it was the neo-latin that slowed down others finding it. It does say posthumous, but doesn't indicate unpublished. Is a "collected works" a published collection of unpublished papers? I could also wonder why we need two FFT articles. Gah4 (talk) 18:13, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
South American dreadnought race
Hi Dondervogel, I reverted you at the linked article because those numbers are taken from the references (citations 88 and 89, some of which are available online!). Best, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 21:59, 17 May 2015 (UTC)