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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or, if the page was deleted, in the Senate Hall rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Keep articles. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 01:26, July 4, 2014 (UTC)

Square units

I do not see any compelling reason for these to have separate articles from Imperial standard meter and kilometer. Any information from these two articles can easily be covered in the articles for their one-dimensional counterparts.--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 02:08, June 19, 2014 (UTC)

Merge and redirect square meter to Imperial standard meter and square kilometer to kilometer

As nominator.--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 02:08, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
Cade GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit Calrayn 02:08, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  1. Merge it! Corellian PremierJedi symbolThe Force will be with you always 02:12, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  2. <-Omicron(Leave a message at the BEEP!) 02:16, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
    501st dogma(talk) 02:19, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
    Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 03:18, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
    But I was planning to create the cubic units to celebrate if/when the 3-D conversions of the films ever started back up again! :P
    Master JonathanCouncil Chambers
    03:45 UTC ThuJune 19, 2014
    JorrelWiki-shrinkableFraajic 03:50, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  3. Ayrehead02 (talk) 09:30, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  4. --praguepride (Talk) 16:04, June 19, 2014 (UTC)

Keep

  1. Okay, here we go. As I pointed out to EJ on IRC, a square unit measures surface area, not length. And, they are listed as separate SI units of measurement (yeah, I know the last one might not apply, but if they recognise a difference, then I feel that should be noted). So, really, redirecting a measurement of surface area, to a measurement of length seems not quite right and counterproductive. While a case could possibly be made for square centimeter, square meter is a separate and recognised SI unit. - Sir Cavalier of OneFarStar(Squadron channel) 21:29, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  2. Per Cav. This is just how metric works. You wouldn't redirect acre (45,360 feet squared) to feet either. 1358 (Talk) 21:42, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  3. After thinking about it for awhile, I am convinced by Cav's argument.--Exiled Jedi Oldrepublic crest (Greetings) 21:48, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  4. As mentioned above by the others, surface ≠ length/distance. --Lelal Mekha Old Republic military symbol (Audience Room) 21:53, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  5. Per Cav.
    Master JonathanCouncil Chambers
    22:01 UTC ThuJune 19, 2014
  6. Per Cav. 501st dogma(talk) 22:04, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  7. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 22:20, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  8. Grand Moff Tranner Imperial Department of Military Research (Comlink) 15:38, June 20, 2014 (UTC)
  9. Clone Commander Lee Talk 09:52, June 21, 2014 (UTC)
  10. I'm curious to know how this passes "Wookieepedia is not a dictionary" but I can't vote to delete based on the original logic, per Cav. JorrelWiki-shrinkableFraajic 10:33, June 21, 2014 (UTC)
  11. Brandon Rhea(talk) 16:28, June 21, 2014 (UTC)
  12. Cade GalacticRepublicEmblem-Traced-TORkit Calrayn 16:29, June 21, 2014 (UTC)
  13. Winterz (talk) 17:29, June 23, 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

It's both fine and reasonable if you all choose to delete those, but if you wanted to follow your logic to the end, you'd have to merge centimeter, millimeter and kilometer into the Imperial standard meter article. --Lelal Mekha Old Republic military symbol (Audience Room) 09:36, June 19, 2014 (UTC)