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See Talk:Decimal Day for comments on merging content from various pages regarding British decimalisation -- OwenBlacker 21:53, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)

I think you are to a winner. See that talk page for details. Pcb21| Pete 22:11, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Rephrase: "has been undergone by all countries except..." isn't right. New countries, and some older ones I'd imagine, have always been decimalized. BenFrantzDale 08:02, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Old wording: "This process has been undergone by all countries except Mauritania and Madagascar." New wording: "All countries that have previously had non-decimal currencies have decimalized, except for Mauritania and Madagascar." How's that? Kairos 11:42, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Also, am I the only one who's a little bummed out about currency decimalization in general? It's helpful to travelers and the like, certainly, but I think all those shillings and sixpences and what-not have a character that's ~~currently~~ lacking in the current coins. Kairos 11:44, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, besides which, 12's are so much more convenient in terms of division. What's a third of a dollar? 33.333333 cents. What's a third of a pre-decimalization Pound? 6s 8d, an exact amount. Nik42 07:14, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

and what do you need a third of a dollar for? It doesn't help much, while it makes calculating way harder (because we still calculate in a decimal system and not a 20, 12 or 240 system). -- 80.156.42.129 11:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

1 Page move
- 1.1 Comments
2 Medium-sized coverage of UK case
3 RUSSIA

[edit] Page move

This section is for votes and comments on the proposed move to Decimalisation.

Oppose. The original author used the American English spelling, and there's no reason to override that choice. JamesMLane 09:41, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
This isn't the place to discuss the requested move, that's Wikipedia:Requested moves, but in any case support -- the original version of the article exclusively discussed the decimalisation of the British currency, and the original anon editor was wrong to spell it with a "z" - the process was always spelt with an "s", I remember because I lived through it. Moreover, the article always spelled it "decimalisation" except in the article name until Violetriga went through it yesterday changing everything to the American spelling. -- Arwel 14:40, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
- This is the correct place to discuss it actually. I changed it all over to match the current article title after Fibonacci changed it before making this proposal. violet/riga (t) 14:46, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
  - I notice Fibonacci changed the one occurrence of the "z" spelling to "s"; you changed it back, together with 5 other occurrences of the "s" spelling, which was clearly the preferred version as the article developed. -- Arwel 15:28, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
    - I brought it in line with the title, as it should be. The article maintained the z spelling for a long time after the original author started the article. While I prefer the word "Decimilisation" I think it's inappropriate to change it. violet/riga (t) 12:07, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
Oppose. I think this is a clear-cut decision based on original author choice – there were many edits that retained that original spelling. violet/riga (t) 14:46, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
Support. Shouldn't even need to be discussed - the main focus of the article is the decimalisation of the British currency, and they spell it with an s. Proto 11:59, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
- That appears to be "Decimal Day" actually. violet/riga (t) 12:07, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
- If the only reason to retain the incorrect spelling is because the original author spelled it incorrectly, then it should be changed. All contributions will be edited mercilessly and all that. Proto 13:47, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
  - But your justification for changing seems to be that it is that it is mainly about British currency, and that's just not true. violet/riga (t) 14:08, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
Support - SoM 18:25, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
Support hmm... Neutral no.... Support- The main origional contributer used the ised spelling and the article mainly concerns a British subject. But the main thing is to kept the spelling consistent through the article--Clawed 05:31, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Votes after the decision was made

Oppose. Stick with original spelling. Jonathunder 21:41, 2005 May 26 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

Arguments for keeping it here:

The article was originally created with this title and this spelling.
The article is not exclusively about the decimalisation (yes, I spell it that way myself) of a country that uses the S spelling.
"The United States was the first to introduce a decimal currency" implies that it was the first to undergo the process, and they will have spelt it this way.

Arguments for moving it to decimalisation:

The majority of the expansion used the S spelling. This was mainly done by Seglea who rewrote and massively extended the article [1].
The article originally focused on just the UK decimalisation and it should have used the S spelling.

Interestingly there are currently 20 main namespace links to each version of the spelling. I'm going to withdraw my objection and abstain, primarily because of the first argument for moving as shown above. violet/riga (t) 14:08, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

It is actually less than that because some of the articles that used the decimalization spelling should have been spelt decimalisation, and I have changed most of them where appropriate.--Clawed 06:10, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 19:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Medium-sized coverage of UK case

I've removed the following section, which i assume has nothing missing from Decimal Day to here:

==Decimalisation in the United Kingdom==

main article: see Decimalisation Day

The switch from pounds shillings and pence to decimal currency started with the introduction of the 5p and 10p coins in 1968, although an earlier experiment resulted in the introduction of the Florin coin denominated at "one tenth of a pound" in 1849. The new coins were the same size and value as the old 1 shilling and 2 shilling coins respectively, and served to introduce the new decimal currency smoothly. The new 50p coin was introduced in 1969.

Decimalisation was completed on 15 February 1971 with the introduction of ½p, 1p, and 2p coins. The 20p coin came out in 1982, and the £1 coin in 1983. The old sixpence continued to circulate, valued at 2½p, but ceased to be legal tender in 1980.

The changeover period was originally scheduled to last a year, but the old currency stopped being used in about half that time. The old shilling and two shilling coins remained in circulation long after decimalisation, much to the confusion of visitors. They were finally withdrawn after new, smaller 5p and 10p coins were issued in 1990 and 1992.

Three levels of discussion of the same topic is confusing and seems unnecessary; if it is serving some purpose that can't be done better by putting additional emphasis on the "main article" in the short, chronological, graph and perhaps other places like the Euro-related one, let's hear about them.
--Jerzy•t 20:13, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RUSSIA

Why does it say that United States was the first to introduce decimal currency? Russia introduced a decimal currency (1 Ruble = 100 kopecks) under Peter the Great 1700-1721. Please correct.Yarilo2