Many Wikipedias have articles on topics that are culturally not very relevant.
The difference I'm talking about is that while information specific to the Avoirdupois system would be very minimal, there would be no reason not to have an entirely separate article about imperial units, corresponding roughly to [[:en:Imperial units]].
("eng-chè" was a guess based on the Mandarin term)
Mark
Henry Tan-Tenn ti 2005/3/11 21:27:03 -0500 siá-kóng:
Mark Williamson ti 2005/3/11 EP 08:58 sia-kong:
I think we should clarify something so we don't get people's knickers in a knot over it: what you say about the article on area not including more than passing mention of imperial units, does /not/ mean there could not be a separate article about them.
Theoretically we could have articles on anything and everything that has relevance to more than a few people in the world. But I am talking about actual practices: writing readable articles that avoid being overly verbose, lengthy, technical, pedantic, or represented in "pure mathetmatics" by assuming certain base knowledge, i.e. a specific readership. As far as I can see, all en: Featured Articles do so. And that means leaving out certain things not of interest or relevance to English speakers while retaining others. It would be a mistake to assume such well-written articles are necessarily universal in relevance or otherwise devoid of cultural assumptions as to be meaningful to other language speakers without all sorts of post-translation re-editing if not rewriting.
Would that be "eng-chè"?
I don't know. The topic has yet to be written down (or the article spun off) due to its lower relevance :)
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