Talk:List of humorous units of measurement

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A set of policy guidelines are being discussed at [[1]]. The guidelines being drawn up there will affect the content of this page. Interested editors are invited to read the discussions going on there and contribute. Rhialto 06:00, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Cite Everything 2 Hangon 3 Spelling 4 Cites!

[edit] Cite Everything

This is intended to provide a home for the many units invented purely for humour value and which do not see any practical usage. wp:not

• This is not for uncited items. Cite everything. That is especially important for a page describing humour, to avoid it degenerating into random jokes.
• This page is not for things you thought up in a boring class at school.
• This is for units created and used primarily for humour value only. If the unit sees widespread usage, at least within its specialist field, it properly belongs in list of strange units of measurement, not here. It is conceivable that a unit originally created for humour value may eventiually see serious usage. The Big Mac Index is one such example.
• This is not for figures of speech. Any items in this page should be be objectively units of measurement. It should be possible and natural to say that "(this thing) is five (units of measurement)". Examples of such bad items from the archived talk for list of strange units of measurement include poofteenth (really small fraction), bee's dick (really small length), and shedload (really large cubic volume or mass).

[edit] Hangon

I'm in the process of creating this page. It will involve moving stuff from various other pages, which is why I hadn't filled it yet. Rhialto 01:47, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, content added. If you still wish to complete the speedy deletion, please say so, and also please move the content here back to the original pages to preserve it. The intent of this page was in part to split off part of an article that was becoming too large to edit easily. Rhialto 03:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

Any objection if I move this to the correct spelling (worldwide), which is "humorous"? If I don't hear in 24 hours or so I'll go ahead and move it. --Guinnog 08:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Sure. Go ahead. I'd have done it myself if I knew how to do it properly. Rhialto 08:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

I just went ahead and moved it. Hope that's ok. --Guinnog 08:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cites!

Just because this page is for humorous units, that is not a reason for not citing anything. Without cites, sooner of later a lot of entries here will probably get removed. Rhialto 21:15, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

But do I have to cite the source of a joke? This militar joke was done during a dictatorship, so it was passed orally from rebel to rebel, with risk to each person's integrity.Albmont 23:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, sources DO need cites. This is meant to be an encyclopedia, not a collection of hearsays. It's not my rule, it's official wikipedia policy. Rhialto 23:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

In any case, there doesn't seem to be any suggestion that this tar unit is actually a unit of measurement. Even used humorously, an entry here must be routinely used in conjunction with a number to be counted as a unit of measurement. Rhialto 05:07, 15 November 2006 (UTC)