Talk:Water meter

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Removed subjective descriptions from links. This is not a place to advertise. All statements should be factual only.Utilitysupplies 18:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Deleted external link to Hexagram since they don't actually make meters. This article is on "water meters". not AMR. Utilitysupplies 02:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Removed most links as SPAMs. 68.39.174.238 06:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AMI category

I suggest that the added section on AMI is mostly beyond the scope of "water meters" in general and belongs in the separate articles on Automatic meter reading or Advanced Metering Infrastructure and be linked from here in the "see also" section. I suggest that a more brief mention of the meter/Encoder functions fits here, but the details of AMR or AMI and networks should be held to the more detailed articles linked above. Utilitysupplies (talk) 15:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cubic Meter->Cubic Metre

Hello. Just thought I should explain why I changed cubic meter to cubic metre. Not trying to step on people's toes here, and I realize that articles do tend to follow the original style used in articles. It wasn't even to match the spelling used in the Cubic metre article (though that was a happy side-benefit). I just thought it would be preferable to switch to a far less ambiguous convention here. (ie. an article that addresses 'metres' and 'meters' as distinct words with distinct meanings seemed more understandable than treating 'meters' and 'meters' as having distinct meanings) 139.57.100.104 (talk) 23:56, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I have seen many water meters and none of them were cubes, so I don't think there is much danger of confusion due to ambiguity. Per WP:ENGVAR I have changed back to "cubic meters" which was used in the initial version of the article. The practice is to leave articles in whichever version of English they started out, unless there is some strong tie to British or North American English (as in articles about Shakespeare or the American Civil War). Both versions of English are fine and appropriate. The spelling absolutely should not flip back and forth within an article (check/cheque, color/colour). Edison (talk) 00:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Um... just to check, you did read what I said, right? About realizing that articles normally follow the original style used (in this case, normally favouring an american spelling)? However, the issue of ambiguity still exists. Granted, a well-reasoned person can tell the difference between a meter that has a cubic shape and a 'cubic meter', but it still doesn't seem to be the most unambiguous.

You won't see me trying to change all 'checks' to 'cheques', unless an article makes use of both the verb 'check' and the noun 'check'(in the financial sense) within the same sentence. (particularly if the latter is a link to the 'cheque' article) The MoS was designed to reduce bickering, not clarity. 139.57.100.104 (talk) 02:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)