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This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
See Talk:Decimal Day for comments on merging content from various pages regarding British decimalisation -- OwenBlacker 21:53, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)
Rephrase: "has been undergone by all countries except..." isn't right. New countries, and some older ones I'd imagine, have always been decimalized. BenFrantzDale 08:02, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Also, am I the only one who's a little bummed out about currency decimalization in general? It's helpful to travelers and the like, certainly, but I think all those shillings and sixpences and what-not have a character that's currently lacking in the current coins.
Kairos 11:44, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was moved
This section is for votes and comments on the proposed move to Decimalisation.
Arguments for keeping it here:
Arguments for moving it to decimalisation:
Interestingly there are currently 20 main namespace links to each version of the spelling. I'm going to withdraw my objection and abstain, primarily because of the first argument for moving as shown above. violet/riga (t) 14:08, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 19:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
I've removed the following section, which i assume has nothing missing from Decimal Day to here:
Three levels of discussion of the same topic is confusing and seems unnecessary; if it is serving some purpose that can't be done better by putting additional emphasis on the "main article" in the short, chronological, graph and perhaps other places like the Euro-related one, let's hear about them.
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Jerzy•
t 20:13, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
Why does it say that United States was the first to introduce decimal currency? Russia introduced a decimal currency (1 Ruble = 100 kopecks) under Peter the Great 1700-1721. Please correct. Yarilo2
The result of the move request was no move. No consensus exists to move this page at this time. PeterSymonds ( talk) 01:36, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Decimalisation →
Decimal currency — The proposed name is more commonly used than Decimalisation . --
Ewawer (
talk) 09:53, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
I want to find a Decimal currency article, but was incorrectly redirected to Decimalisation, which universally means something else. I am not looking for decimalisation (my first hand experience in 1971 was enough of that for me). I want to read about currencies (such as the US dollar or the Euro) that were never decimalised, but were already decimal upon first introduction. For a meta-question example:
That meta-question has nothing to do with conversion from an earlier non-decimal form (which is what decimalisation means), and everything to do with what decimal currency means. These are my two actual questions:
With thanks, from ChrisJBenson ( talk) 04:49, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
What this article doesn't explain is why decimalisation took place at all. Why did we start off with fractional/factorisational currencies, and then switch to decimal ones? Presently, this article doesn't even touch that subject. I'm fairly certain I know the answer, but I'm not sure, and someone who is an expert would do well to add this information to the article. RGloucester — ☎ 00:02, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
The article claims this:
But it also claims this:
The pages for Ruble and Yuan also both claim they were the first. Which one is correct?
212.39.32.51 ( talk) 11:26, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
I unironically wonder if decimal system is native to China, given how Chinese calendar uses 5*12 cycle. 2A00:1370:81A2:1F8E:7948:7478:689A:BE61 ( talk) 08:00, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
The lede states "...the metric system, which has been adopted by almost all countries (with the prominent exceptions of the United States, and, to a lesser extent, the United Kingdom)." However, the UK is now entirely metric with the exception of the mile for long distances and the pint pulled in a pub. All weights are in kilograms and grams, heights and lengths are in metres and millimetres, volumes are in litres. The law requires goods to be sold using the metric system and only the metric system is taught in schools. So the statement is utterly misleading and inaccurate. The caveat "to a lesser extent" is unclear and still gives the impression that the UK is a non-metric country which it isn't. I've tried to correct it but been reverted, so flagging it up here. Bermicourt ( talk) 08:03, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's
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This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
See Talk:Decimal Day for comments on merging content from various pages regarding British decimalisation -- OwenBlacker 21:53, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)
Rephrase: "has been undergone by all countries except..." isn't right. New countries, and some older ones I'd imagine, have always been decimalized. BenFrantzDale 08:02, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Also, am I the only one who's a little bummed out about currency decimalization in general? It's helpful to travelers and the like, certainly, but I think all those shillings and sixpences and what-not have a character that's currently lacking in the current coins.
Kairos 11:44, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was moved
This section is for votes and comments on the proposed move to Decimalisation.
Arguments for keeping it here:
Arguments for moving it to decimalisation:
Interestingly there are currently 20 main namespace links to each version of the spelling. I'm going to withdraw my objection and abstain, primarily because of the first argument for moving as shown above. violet/riga (t) 14:08, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 19:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
I've removed the following section, which i assume has nothing missing from Decimal Day to here:
Three levels of discussion of the same topic is confusing and seems unnecessary; if it is serving some purpose that can't be done better by putting additional emphasis on the "main article" in the short, chronological, graph and perhaps other places like the Euro-related one, let's hear about them.
--
Jerzy•
t 20:13, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
Why does it say that United States was the first to introduce decimal currency? Russia introduced a decimal currency (1 Ruble = 100 kopecks) under Peter the Great 1700-1721. Please correct. Yarilo2
The result of the move request was no move. No consensus exists to move this page at this time. PeterSymonds ( talk) 01:36, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Decimalisation →
Decimal currency — The proposed name is more commonly used than Decimalisation . --
Ewawer (
talk) 09:53, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
I want to find a Decimal currency article, but was incorrectly redirected to Decimalisation, which universally means something else. I am not looking for decimalisation (my first hand experience in 1971 was enough of that for me). I want to read about currencies (such as the US dollar or the Euro) that were never decimalised, but were already decimal upon first introduction. For a meta-question example:
That meta-question has nothing to do with conversion from an earlier non-decimal form (which is what decimalisation means), and everything to do with what decimal currency means. These are my two actual questions:
With thanks, from ChrisJBenson ( talk) 04:49, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
What this article doesn't explain is why decimalisation took place at all. Why did we start off with fractional/factorisational currencies, and then switch to decimal ones? Presently, this article doesn't even touch that subject. I'm fairly certain I know the answer, but I'm not sure, and someone who is an expert would do well to add this information to the article. RGloucester — ☎ 00:02, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
The article claims this:
But it also claims this:
The pages for Ruble and Yuan also both claim they were the first. Which one is correct?
212.39.32.51 ( talk) 11:26, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
I unironically wonder if decimal system is native to China, given how Chinese calendar uses 5*12 cycle. 2A00:1370:81A2:1F8E:7948:7478:689A:BE61 ( talk) 08:00, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
The lede states "...the metric system, which has been adopted by almost all countries (with the prominent exceptions of the United States, and, to a lesser extent, the United Kingdom)." However, the UK is now entirely metric with the exception of the mile for long distances and the pint pulled in a pub. All weights are in kilograms and grams, heights and lengths are in metres and millimetres, volumes are in litres. The law requires goods to be sold using the metric system and only the metric system is taught in schools. So the statement is utterly misleading and inaccurate. The caveat "to a lesser extent" is unclear and still gives the impression that the UK is a non-metric country which it isn't. I've tried to correct it but been reverted, so flagging it up here. Bermicourt ( talk) 08:03, 29 June 2022 (UTC)