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Didn't read the exchange on ANI too well... My peeved reply was unwarranted. Apologies. Kleuske (talk) 18:04, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for noting precision problems at Template_talk:Convert (rev: [1]), where 2,000 tonnes should default to "1,970 long tons" per scientific rounding rules. For over 10 years, I have been working to fix the default calculations to match the sensible results typically used by scientists, as coded in the regulations related to U.S. NIST SP811. During the prior 10 years, there have been a lot of refusals to use sourced calculations for conversions, including the excuse: Wikipedia "is not a U.S. product" to follow NIST regulations. I don't know why some people think over-rounding is preferable to slightly extra precision, because the over-rounding for 10 years has produced illogical conversions, such as ((convert|105|-|106|F|C)) –> 105–106 °F (41–41 °C) rather than the correct 105–106 °F (40.6–41.1 °C). Having two temperatures both convert to "41" is just a nonsense range and cannot be called "preferable" to showing different results for different numbers. Because your hunches about the unusual precision have been correct, I suspect you are too intelligent for typical WP issues, and so thank you for tolerating the current format problems in Wikipedia pages. It often takes extreme patience to make progress on WP. Anyway, to remind people how to determine a correct conversion, then I have added a note at Template_talk:Convert to re-explain how precision should be calculated:
Thanks again for taking time to improve Wikipedia. -Wikid77 (talk) 18:10, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
An article you recently created, Photoflood, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:
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Thank you for adding that source. I have been cleaning up articles that have often been edited by people related with the topics, as well as points often going unsourced for years. Markvs88 (talk) 15:26, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
I wished to inform you that anyone may remove a Proposed Deletion tag, including the page creator/principal contributor. It is speedy deletion tags that cannot be removed by the page creator. 331dot (talk) 19:49, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
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DGG ( talk ) 06:35, 16 September 2019 (UTC)