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It's fine for this article to be in British English for historical reasons, but it's not ok for it to exhibit unsourced and false prejudice. The spelling "liter" is more, not less, common than "litre". More individual countries may opt for the Franco-British spelling but Texas alone has more people than Australia; Alabama has more people than New Zealand; and the US prints more books and has more webpages as well.
There's a way to phrase the idea to get the same point across with less opprobrium, but "liter" is not "less common". — LlywelynII 02:32, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
In my humble opinion, the best answer to that question was given 12 years ago: "On the other hand, one could wonder whether American English really deserves to have different spellings for measures which Americans refuse to adopt. ;) - toh 16:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)" Quite charming! -- 217.89.43.122 ( talk) 13:38, 27 March 2018 (UTC) "true" -a person — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.168.214.70 ( talk) 13:38, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
You mean pro-American, as twice in the opening paragraphs we are pointlessly informed that one country spells it wrong.
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How was it decided which units were bolded to indicate they were more often used? I've never heard or seen hectolitre, decilitre, centilitre or microlitre in common usage but have heard and seen kilolitre, megalitre and gigalitre in common usage. GK1 ( talk) 00:08, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Would Americans say, "I gotta yottaliter - that's a lotta liters"? Mike Spathaky ( talk) 22:06, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Discuss. Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 16:40, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
It is now known as the International System of Units (SI). Given that we know that the "litre" is a "non-SI unit", it follows that it's a non-metric-system unit too. Or is the "metric system" article wrong about that? -- DeFacto ( talk). 18:06, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Metric system may also refer to other systems of related base and derived units defined before the middle of the 20th century, some of which are still in limited use today. - Arch dude ( talk) 19:30, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
It seems we have 4 closely related articles:
In addition we have metric units, which redirects to International system of units. What we need is one article to describe the concept of a general metric unit, which could include some history and would include the litre. And a second one on the SI, which would exclude the litre. The other articles seem redundant to me. Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 16:17, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
@ Arch dude: @ DeFacto: Thoughts or suggestions for improvement? Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 09:08, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
A group of editors working at Litre has identified the following closely related articles.
We feel there is too much duplication in these 5 articles. We also see a need for a new article Metric units. That new article could usefully include summaries of
If you have an opinion, please express it at this RFC. Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 07:43, 28 February 2021 (UTC) It's acually "liter" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.168.214.70 ( talk) 13:37, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
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It's fine for this article to be in British English for historical reasons, but it's not ok for it to exhibit unsourced and false prejudice. The spelling "liter" is more, not less, common than "litre". More individual countries may opt for the Franco-British spelling but Texas alone has more people than Australia; Alabama has more people than New Zealand; and the US prints more books and has more webpages as well.
There's a way to phrase the idea to get the same point across with less opprobrium, but "liter" is not "less common". — LlywelynII 02:32, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
In my humble opinion, the best answer to that question was given 12 years ago: "On the other hand, one could wonder whether American English really deserves to have different spellings for measures which Americans refuse to adopt. ;) - toh 16:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)" Quite charming! -- 217.89.43.122 ( talk) 13:38, 27 March 2018 (UTC) "true" -a person — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.168.214.70 ( talk) 13:38, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
You mean pro-American, as twice in the opening paragraphs we are pointlessly informed that one country spells it wrong.
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How was it decided which units were bolded to indicate they were more often used? I've never heard or seen hectolitre, decilitre, centilitre or microlitre in common usage but have heard and seen kilolitre, megalitre and gigalitre in common usage. GK1 ( talk) 00:08, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Would Americans say, "I gotta yottaliter - that's a lotta liters"? Mike Spathaky ( talk) 22:06, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Discuss. Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 16:40, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
It is now known as the International System of Units (SI). Given that we know that the "litre" is a "non-SI unit", it follows that it's a non-metric-system unit too. Or is the "metric system" article wrong about that? -- DeFacto ( talk). 18:06, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Metric system may also refer to other systems of related base and derived units defined before the middle of the 20th century, some of which are still in limited use today. - Arch dude ( talk) 19:30, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
It seems we have 4 closely related articles:
In addition we have metric units, which redirects to International system of units. What we need is one article to describe the concept of a general metric unit, which could include some history and would include the litre. And a second one on the SI, which would exclude the litre. The other articles seem redundant to me. Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 16:17, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
@ Arch dude: @ DeFacto: Thoughts or suggestions for improvement? Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 09:08, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
A group of editors working at Litre has identified the following closely related articles.
We feel there is too much duplication in these 5 articles. We also see a need for a new article Metric units. That new article could usefully include summaries of
If you have an opinion, please express it at this RFC. Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 07:43, 28 February 2021 (UTC) It's acually "liter" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.168.214.70 ( talk) 13:37, 23 March 2021 (UTC)