Talk:List of strange units of measurement
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I moved this page from AttoParsec. Units of measurement are not capitalized. - Montréalais 22:12, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I rewrote this to make it clear that attoparsec has a special status in nerd humor... and therefore the existence of this article should not be a precedent for creating individual stubby articles on yoctoparsecs, zeptoparsecs, exaparsecs, etc. etc. I didn't want to lose the content. If there's a suitable article that already discusses nerd humor it could be moved there. Dpbsmith 23:47, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Palapala, I've taken the liberty of editing your notes on km/woche to make them read better in English. Incidentally, I used the phrase "a snail's pace" because it is an English idiom. Is your phrase "the speed of a snail" a translation of a German idiom? Dpbsmith 12:40, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
A "Ranchette" (1/2 picoacre) may qualify for addition here, and as nerd humor also, being used in semiconductor design (see Bob Pease, Electronic Design, March 3, 1997).--DanB 05:57, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Page listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion Feb 21 to Feb 26 2004. Discussion:
- attoparsec - Mainly listed to prevent bad precedence from being created, I don't think this particular prefix/unit combination warrants its own article. The brief mention in parsec is enough IMO. -- Dissident 22:32, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- No vote. I just rewrote it, emphasizing its special status as a jocularity and therefore (hopefully) making it clear that it's not a precedent for individual article on yoctoparsecs, exaparsecs, etc. Assuming that it really is in jocular use by programmers--I just googled on it and The Jargon File and other sources aren't terribly convincing about this--it's worth preserving, though if there is a suitable article on nerd humor it could be moved there. I think I would argue that if it has an entry in FOLDOC and in the Jargon File, there's a prima facie case for it to have an entry in Wikipedia. Dpbsmith 23:53, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. In its present form, a perfectly good item on a piece of nerd humor. Dandrake 00:09, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. It's a joke with a long tradition (pre-web times...) --Palapala 09:54, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. BL 10:43, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Keep; it's got a long tradition. Psychonaut 14:05, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Relocate, probably under the (as yet non-existant) nerd humour page. Oberiko 19:56, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Keep, as it is, where it is. Wonderfully humorous and well explained.Doovinator 15:14, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Keep, highly amusing and very well explained. PMC 17:29, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. A gem. The comment on the German km/wk was a very nice cross cultural touch. Kd4ttc 19:07, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
The above is the former content of the attoparsec talk page: --Palapala 16:45, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I had a look at my notes of years ago, and talked to some former collegues. It has been "Semeilen/Woche" (NM/week), not km/week... --Palapala
hubble barn?
Hubble-Barn redirected here, but doesn't seem to be mentioned on the page? [Anon, not signed in]
- There's information about it in the article's source text, but it was commented out:
(cur) (last) 02:22, 5 Mar 2004 Palapala (last entry awaiting confirmation)
- To see it, click "edit this page" and scroll down near the bottom. Bryan 07:42, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
External links
I decided to revert Icairns's change combining of all the references in the article since they are not free standing references, but instead are specific sources for quotations within the article. Having them down at the bottom all together just makes it harder to associate them with what they are a source for. I actually added one reference back in without realizing that it was already there, at the bottom. JesseW 08:02, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Most Wiki articles have their external links at the end of the article. Inserting them into the body will make this article look out of place. What's wrong with footnotes pointing at a later external link? You will also need to change the appearance of the See also section heading - since your reversion, this is now out of sorts with other Wiki articles. Ian Cairns 08:09, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- You're right. How do I make footnotes? Regarding the See also part, someone already fixed it. Thanks for responding. JesseW 03:02, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Here's a page on Wikipedia:Footnotes. Consensus seems to be that there are a variety of partial solutions. Sigh. I'll look for a way to make anchors, if I remember, there is no good way to do that either. JesseW 05:09, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Can Standard Units Be Strange Enough?
I mostly do cultural stuff on Wiki, but are yottagram and zettagram strange enough units of measurement? Just asking.McDogm--McDogm 07:54, 2 May 2005 (UTC)