User talk:Balrogthane

(copied from before I had a username)

March 2008

Thanks for experimenting with the page CS gas on Wikipedia. Your recent edit appears to have added incorrect information, and has been reverted or removed. All information in the encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable published source. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. TINY MARK 08:58, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I'm supposed to reply here...

I may have done my math wrong, but if I got the conversion from pounds to tons right, the edit I made did not change any factual content of the page. It is always confusing to change units in the middle of a discussion. At best, it forces the reader to waste time converting one unit to another, so they can compare the two; at worst, it is used to intentionally mislead the audience, making one number appear much larger than another.

The content on the CS page switched from tons ("thousands of tons of CS gas were used by the U.S. forces") to pounds ("other estimates report 15 million pounds of CS being used"). Changing 15 million pounds to seven and a half thousand tons is, I believe, not a change in facts at all, but merely an attempt to make the page more readable. If you believe it was ill-advised in this respect, I have no quarrel with it being removed-- but it did not 'add' any information, either incorrect or otherwise (again, as long as I did my math right).

Hi. I see your point, but the article cited after this statement uses a particular unit and converting it in this way is not the right way to do it. You could put the alternative unit in brackets afterwards if it will help the readability.

Tip: When replying, you can use the colon to indent your comment and please do not forget to sign comments using four tildes (~~~~) Greetings TINY MARK 16:50, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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