Talk:Eastern White Pine

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[edit] Metric

This page, like many other American species pages existed solely in Metric for a long time. I added units with which Americans are familiar. MPF rearranged these to make the Metric have precedence. While Metric measurement is clearly superior, and probably will be adapted some day by the U.S., it is currently strange to the lay people who will use this work as a reference. If I were to start reworking pages of European species with units unfamiliar to the lay people, it would be regarded as discourteous. Please consider this and apply the Golden Rule. Pollinator July 3, 2005 13:16 (UTC)

I disagree. It is a science topic, and as in any science topic, scientific measurements should come first. I also would point out that the Flora of North America (probably the best and most detailed American source of information on American plants) does not consider US units to be necessary at all. Finally, it should be remembered that well over half of the species' range is in Canada. - MPF 3 July 2005 13:25 (UTC)

Any scientific topic should use SI. 67.140.227.39 23:16, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm pretty new to wikipedia so I don't feel comfortable editing a page. There is a claim on this page which simply cannot be true, and must be a type "the Boogerman Pine was 630 m (2070 ft) tall" I hope someone that know more about this than me can correct this.

There is another error later in the page "a tree in the Mohawk Trail State Forest known as the Jake Swamp Tree is 510.5 m (1690 ft) tall as of June 2007"