User talk:Maury Markowitz

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Nomination of Mailplane (software) for deletion

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DYK nom needs attention

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DYK for Radar, Coast Defense, Mark I

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♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:02, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Units unclear

With this edit you introduced a conversion error. {{convert|70|ton|kg}} doesn’t work because ton is not a recognized unit. I would have fixed it myself, but I’m not sure which unit you want.. See Help:Convert units#Mass for the accepted units. Did you mean Long ton? Short ton? Please fix. .— Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:59, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not a clue. The reference doesn't say. In fact, none of the dozens of books and thousands of other references dating back decades do either. Somehow I managed to make it through the entire switch from Imperial to metric without even being aware that there were two. I suspect that the references all mean the same thing when they simply say "ton", but I have no idea which that might be. Maury Markowitz (talk) 22:24, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I hear yea… Things can be confusing! - Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:26, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems hard to believe that when I read a white paper on an old computer and they say it weights "4 tons", that they believed there was an ambiguity. It would seem more likely that those references all refer to the same measure, no? Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:25, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t disagree with you. To quote Short ton: The short ton (abbreviation: tn or st), also known as the US ton, is a measurement unit equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18 kg). It is commonly used in the United States, where it is known simply as a ton (emphasis mine). My guess is that you are looking for the short ton in your case. I think the reason that it is ambiguous on Wikipedia is that we have users from multiple countries and a ton in the US means something different than a ton in, for example, the UK. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:52, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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