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Millimetre is a relatively uncommon spelling.
It wouldn't be silly at all. The official US spelling is meter (by law, so there is some official to this), and given the number of hits the different terms are getting, I'd say the users are voting as well. It's silly to dismiss these facts. — fcsuper ( How's That?, That's How!) ( Exclusionistic Immediatist ) — 23:21, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
The first question asking
seeks the information sought by most English-speakers who access this article. For them, stating the conversion to inches is the simplest, clearest, most succinct explanation of the term.
The straightforward explanation kindly given in response should be added to the first paragraph of the article.
For the many who well-understand "inch" (179,000,000 hits) this conversion to inches is the first, the main, or the only explanation that they need.
I was just about to add a picture to the right hand side, as I've seen in many Wikipedia articles but, as I read an article on adding images to Wikipedia I realized that you have to be a rocket scientist or no less than a genius to do so. So I'll just leave this here http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/royalty-free/42-21214121/ruler?popup=1&caller=enlargement
and hope that a rocket scientists adds it, or adds something better explaining the top as inches and CM and the bottom as MM.
I really think Wikipedia could and should make it a lot easier to add images and captions to articles. DiscoElf ( talk) 00:14, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Please discuss these changes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Measurement#Changes to the ledes of many SI-related articles. Martinvl ( talk) 18:29, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
How do you converted to millimeters to metres? Esinako ( talk) 20:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
I hear sometimes that the long names of millimetre and centimetre are considered a burden by imperial users. In Turkish sometimes "milim" and "santim" ( "millim" and "centim" ? ) are used in daily speech. I'm not familiar with Wikipedia guidelines but maybe it can be added as a suggestion or just a note.
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Millimetre is a relatively uncommon spelling.
It wouldn't be silly at all. The official US spelling is meter (by law, so there is some official to this), and given the number of hits the different terms are getting, I'd say the users are voting as well. It's silly to dismiss these facts. — fcsuper ( How's That?, That's How!) ( Exclusionistic Immediatist ) — 23:21, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
The first question asking
seeks the information sought by most English-speakers who access this article. For them, stating the conversion to inches is the simplest, clearest, most succinct explanation of the term.
The straightforward explanation kindly given in response should be added to the first paragraph of the article.
For the many who well-understand "inch" (179,000,000 hits) this conversion to inches is the first, the main, or the only explanation that they need.
I was just about to add a picture to the right hand side, as I've seen in many Wikipedia articles but, as I read an article on adding images to Wikipedia I realized that you have to be a rocket scientist or no less than a genius to do so. So I'll just leave this here http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/royalty-free/42-21214121/ruler?popup=1&caller=enlargement
and hope that a rocket scientists adds it, or adds something better explaining the top as inches and CM and the bottom as MM.
I really think Wikipedia could and should make it a lot easier to add images and captions to articles. DiscoElf ( talk) 00:14, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Please discuss these changes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Measurement#Changes to the ledes of many SI-related articles. Martinvl ( talk) 18:29, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
How do you converted to millimeters to metres? Esinako ( talk) 20:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
I hear sometimes that the long names of millimetre and centimetre are considered a burden by imperial users. In Turkish sometimes "milim" and "santim" ( "millim" and "centim" ? ) are used in daily speech. I'm not familiar with Wikipedia guidelines but maybe it can be added as a suggestion or just a note.