Talk:1 metre

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 18 March 2008. The result of the discussion was Keep.

[edit] Some IMO redundant ones=

  • 1.70 m — (5 feet 7 inches) — one smoot
    • Non-standard, made up unit - not suffiently notable. But fun, nevertheless.
  • 1.88 m — (nearly 6 feet 2 inches) — 95 [percentile] height of US human males in 2002.
    • We don't need two numbers for height of human males.
  • 3.66 m — The length of a new Mini
    • We don't need two numbers for length of Minis.

As I've said before, if you care deeply about one or more of these, feel free to re-add it. JesseW 06:19, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rename proposal

At AFD I argued: Rename and redirect, and let's argue instead about what their base names should be, which is the whole problem. I propose "1 yoctometre", "100 zeptometres", etc., through "100 yottametres". For purposes of people finding them, redirect from many other potential versions such as "1 centimeter" = "1 centimetre", "ten nanometres" = "10 nanometres" (these first two also combine), "1hm" = "1 hm" = "1 hectometre", "one thousandth metre" = "1 millimetre", "one milliard metres" = "1 gigametre" (use of >100 and <.01 is limited only to text, and only with meter and metre), "one billion metres" = "1 gigametre" (not "1 terametre"), and occasional exceptions like "1 myriameter" = "10 kilometres". Also add to disambiguation pages like "10K". That should be enough to define a system, y'all can take it from there. John J. Bulten (talk) 14:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

OK, in the absence of comment I'm prepared to proceed. Many of the links to the shorter names "1 E0 m" will become redirects to the longer names "1 metre", but this is not a problem per WP:R2D and double redirects will be addressed. JJB 05:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
I also will be adding a few entries to the subarticles taken from: Wallechinsky, David; Wallace, Irving; Wallace, Amy (1977 (1st Bantam ed., February 1978)). The Book of Lists. Bantam Books, 268-271. ISBN 0553111507.  JJB 05:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)