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Thanks to Paul Wormer and Anthony Argyriou for your recent edits of this. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 15:52, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Thanks to Paul Wormer and Anthony Argyriou for your recent edits of this. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 15:52, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
== Commonwealth ==
Earlier today I added a sentence to the lede about the standardization of US units overlooking  a similar sentence much further down in the article.  The main difference between the two sentences  is that I copied  from the given reference explicitly the countries involved in the agreement, whereas in the older sentence the countries are called the "Commonwealth of Nations" (plus US).  The two statements are not completely overlapping: in 1959 the Commonwealth consisted of  many more nations than the ones I listed. Pakistan and some African countries, India, etc. So, what is correct? And, mentioning this once is sufficient; I prefer it in the lede. --[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 16:18, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia has an article of the same name

To the best of my memory, I was not a significant contributor to the WP article. This CZ article was written essentially from scratch. It may contain some WP content because the two article include the same measurement units and SI equivalents. Milton Beychok 23:13, 25 August 2008 (CDT)

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Thanks to Paul Wormer and Anthony Argyriou for your recent edits of this. Milton Beychok 15:52, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Commonwealth

Earlier today I added a sentence to the lede about the standardization of US units overlooking a similar sentence much further down in the article. The main difference between the two sentences is that I copied from the given reference explicitly the countries involved in the agreement, whereas in the older sentence the countries are called the "Commonwealth of Nations" (plus US). The two statements are not completely overlapping: in 1959 the Commonwealth consisted of many more nations than the ones I listed. Pakistan and some African countries, India, etc. So, what is correct? And, mentioning this once is sufficient; I prefer it in the lede. --Paul Wormer 16:18, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

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