Talk:Chain (length)

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The page shows a side box with 11.821 mile/chain. It's easy to show consistency with the rest of the article: 80 chain/mile and 5280'/mile = 66'/chain x 80 chain/mile = 16.5'/rod x 4 rod/chain x 80 chain/mile, etc. Or, 1 mile/80 chain = 0.0125 mile/chain. --KCK 21:33, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Merge Gunter's Measurement? 2 Side box error: 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Sectional appendix chains.gif 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Sectional appendix chains.gif 5 Usage in India

[edit] Merge Gunter's Measurement?

This article contains almost the complete contents of the Gunter's measurement article and perhaps these articles should be merged, and a redirect placed from Gunter's. 148.63.234.151 08:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

My opinion is that a person that has found this unit somewhere and just to know what it is and what it is equivalent to, should have a quick way to do that, without the need to read (and know) all of the history of the Gunter's measurement and without the need to know the whole system. So a page named chain (or chain (unit)) make sense to me.

Moreover if a redirect should be place, it would better if it redirect to a section named Chain rather than to the whole article Gunter's measurement. So it would be better that such a section exists first. -- AnyFile 07:43, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I think both of the above comments are right, but on balance I think Gunter deserves the credit for inventing the surveying device, which led on to the unit of measurement.

I've enhanced this page with the units of measurement discussion, and I have created a Gunter's chain page and transferred all the surveying stuff to that.

I'm still worried that the North American and Australian stuff remaining on this page looks anecdotal and non-authoritative; if any editors can improve those sections it would be very helpful.

Afterbrunel 10:40, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Side box error:

In the side box headed 1 chain =, under Imperial units, is the equivalence 1 chain = 12.5x10^-3 miles. That figure should be 12.5x10^-2 miles, or 125x10^-3 miles, which is 0.125 miles, which is one-eighth of a mile.64.193.92.84 00:54, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Are you sure? A chain is 1/80 mile, so it is 0.0125 miles. Afterbrunel 10:44, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Sectional appendix chains.gif

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BetacommandBot 04:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Sectional appendix chains.gif

Image:Sectional appendix chains.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 20:31, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Usage in India

I think it is very much in use in India. All land measurements/survey for commercial purposes are done using the Chain. India is hugely influenced by Britain in this and a lot of other things. And we stick to our traditions. 59.180.161.253 (talk) 17:17, 8 January 2008 (UTC)