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[edit] Your edits to Horten Ho 229

Removing chunks of material from Wikipedia pages is consdered vandalism. Please refrain from this in the future. Thank you. - Emt147 ^Burninate! 03:18, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

WFT? I just cleaned it up a bit, removed a couple of superfluous speeds, I didn't alter a single sentence. So how the hell you come to calling that "removing chunks of material" I don't understand. The current revision is particularly bad, because almost all the speeds are listed in archaic units in the body of the article, while in the table normal units are used. This needs to be addressed, but I'll keep away from the article for now. I might do something to upset you....8472 16:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

First of all, lbf, mph, and feet are not "archaic units." Wikipedia is multinational and use of both imperial and metric units is strongly encouraged. Then, you need to proof-read your edits. Here's a sentence you created:

Maximum range was estimated at 1,900 k)

Given removal of many numbers and this clumsy result, I wanted to make sure this wasn't vandalism. No need to get worked up about it. You are more than welcome to improve any article. I recommend looking at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aircraft/page_content for recommended layout. - Emt147 ^Burninate! 03:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

OK then, no problems there. I disagree with you about the use of imperial units (confuses the hell out of everyone not used to them (that is, most of the world)), but I can live with that. If I indeed made mistakes, I apologise for them, I missed it. 8472 10:27, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. The general consensus on the units is that "native" units go first. So the Ho 229 article should really have the metric units as the primary with imperials in parentheses (i.e. the reverse of what it is now). Brits went largely metric in the 1950s as I recall, so imperial units go first only for American and pre-1950s British aircraft. - Emt147 ^Burninate! 02:15, 6 April 2006 (UTC)