Talk:Gal (unit)
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[edit] Greg's deceptive edits regarding this non-SI unit
User:Greg L has been editing this article to deceptively make it sound like it is an SI unit (without actually doing so), when it is not. See the BIPM SI brochure, 8th ed. 2006, Table 9. Non-SI units associated with the CGS and the CGS-Gaussian system of units[1] Gene Nygaard 21:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Greg L also tried to expunge the normal spelling of the name of this unit as "gal" rather than "galileo". That had already been fixed way back in 2005 when the article was moved from galileo (unit) to the current name. Gene Nygaard 21:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- The overwhelming preponderance in the use of gal rather than galileo as the name of the unit is illustrated quite well, in addition to the fact that "gal" is its name with no mention of "galileo" in either the BIPM SI brochure or in NIST SP811, by the fact that milligalileo remains a redlink as I write this, even though this article has existed for the last 3 years and 5 months. Gene Nygaard 21:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Military-grade cow Frisbees. No one is trying to “expunge” things or make something “sound like” something it isn’t. Maybe I thought the full unit name is Galileo (rather than “Gal”) is because I ran across some seemingly-authoritative Web sites—like this one at the University of North Carolina and this one by the European Space Agency—that say the full unit name is Galileo. I accept that the sources you’ve found seem more credible.
P.S. I had nothing to do with the second gunman on the grassy knoll either, nor any other “deceptive” conspiracies to change the world in ways you don’t like. Greg L (my talk) 00:26, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- Military-grade cow Frisbees. No one is trying to “expunge” things or make something “sound like” something it isn’t. Maybe I thought the full unit name is Galileo (rather than “Gal”) is because I ran across some seemingly-authoritative Web sites—like this one at the University of North Carolina and this one by the European Space Agency—that say the full unit name is Galileo. I accept that the sources you’ve found seem more credible.
[edit] Torr
Why does this article state that the Torr is the SI unit of pressure, when even the Torr article states that it is non-SI? Perhaps it should be replaced with the Pascal. RossMM (talk) 22:58, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
