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Occasionally, I may come across articles which give measures only in imperial (miles, gallons, pounds, feet...). Since most of the world uses metric, I feel its better to give equivalent (converted & rounded) metric measurements, which might be more familiar and user-friendly than inches, feet or
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This is not the american wikipedia, but the english wikipedia, and most english speaking countries are metric (with the US being the sole exception). Feel free to give equivalent customary figures in articles, but don't leave metric in second place.
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I understand some specialities use non metric measurements on a daily basis as an standard. These are (but are not limited to) aviation (feets for heigh), nautic (nautical knoots and miles)or computer storage (hard disk drives, floppies).
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Some people have argued that since this topic is related to the U.S., there will be a high probability the reader will american, therefore more familiar with miles than kilometres (even if he/she has been taught metric at school!).
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In these situations I favour the use of imperial measures, but always followed by metric equivalents, for example 123 feet ( xxx metres).
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Let me state this once for all: I am a pro-metrication editor. For this, I give preference to metric units whenever that is possible.
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