Talk:Lentis/Conversion to the Metric Standard in the United States

thoughts, fall 2012
worth adding this group somewhere?

http://www.bwmaonline.com/ACWM.htm http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75rdecabet.phtml

Offshoot of a British organization. Might provide a nice segue to mention the British opposition. Mjd2dh (discuss • contribs) 19:50, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

would be good to work in America's hat. we have that nice video from the ppt, so we might as well try to shoehorm some of these in. Mjd2dh (discuss • contribs) 19:52, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

another thing found: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/drastic-measures-the-metric-assault-on-american-standards/#axzz2EgLPbMdz

Mjd2dh (discuss • contribs) 20:15, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

work to be done
adam: psychology stuff (path dependence)

mike is going to do some reorganization/expansion on political stuff

intro needs an overhaul

sections reorganization

2012 Group Contributions
The article in the form before we got here was strangely organized, and very repetitive. It had a weak chronological ordering, which doesn't really fit with the idea of social groups interacting. We've reorganized the chapter to take a more STS-like approach. The chapter in the form we found it had ~2000 words, but we immediately reorganized and economized it. This brought it down to ~1500 or less before we started adding content. This, we believe, is the perspective from which our work should be assessed.Mjd2dh (discuss • contribs) 20:31, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Sections created:
 * economics
 * opponents (to balance proponents)

Sections curated:
 * entire document reorganized to divide by subject matter, not by time
 * Modern Day split and moved to relevant section based on subject matter
 * Generalizable lesson restructured to avoid prescription, and move much more towards neutrality and diagnosis. In form before we got here, it was very biased.

Sections absorbed into others:
 * Origin info linked to in introduction. was mostly non-US information, all of which was contained in wikipedia article

Selections eliminated
 * Proponents/U.S. Congress
 * Early U.S. Metrication dropped