User talk:Eadmund

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-- Gentgeen 02:51, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

metric values in recipes
please do not remove metric values in recipes. Not everyone uses imperial measurments, so the metric measurments make the recipes more usefull to others. Thanks. Gentgeen 18:32, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This is somewhat old but I am quite infuriated by your actions. You removed the metric measurement from the Pavlova recipe. As discussed in the Pavlova recipe, it is primarily a New Zealand and Australian recipe and Kiwis and Australians predominantly use metric. In this case, the fact that the original contributor used metric and you completely removed the metric makes it even worse. Nil Einne 12:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

For your information, metric is the common and universally accepted name. You can say what you want, but it doesn't change the fact. It would just as similarly be silly to argue that you should't call CDs CDs because DVD, floppy discs, and other discs are also compact discs...

Also you can call them French units if your want, but they're the units used by the rest of the world, other then a few oddball countries such as the US and UK which still cling to the outdated notion of the British empire (and the imperial units). Sorry but the British empire is dead and the real world has moved on. Even the smarter ones in the UK and US use metric (I guess you like to think scientists aren't smart but of course without them you won't have computers, or cars, or the millions of other things you take for granted).

I'm please however that you've seen the error of your ways. Your welcome to add additional units. Although please remember that additional units should be that, additional units. If the original units were metric, these should remain the primary units unless there is a clear policy otherwise (which there isn't). Nil Einne 19:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)