Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myriametre

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The result of the debate was redirect. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:44, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Myriametre

Rarely used unit with an archaic SI prefix. Georgia guy 01:48, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to metre or something else, since it is archaic. --metta, The Sunborn 03:17, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• See an analogous discussion at Talk:Binary prefix#Consolidate_all_the_little_articles. Uncle G 03:38, 2005 May 24 (UTC)
  • Obsolete prefixes aren't really analogous, are they? - Omegatron 18:33, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
    • I was referring to the discussion being analogous. Uncle G 21:19, 2005 May 24 (UTC)
• Redirect to myria. the wub (talk) 08:12, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to myria. I think anyone looking up this term is likely to be more interested in the prefix than the unit its prefixing (which is frankly a unit everyone should known). Plugwash 12:33, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as suggested by User:Uncle G above. Useful to know, and you wouldn't necessarily know myria just because you heard myriametre. Also do redirect from myriameter for American spelling variation Internodeuser 13:20, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Myria. - Omegatron 13:38, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Myria. The last notable use of the myriametre was in Art. 1 of the French Civil Code, but it has disappeared even from there since 2004. Physchim62 18:29, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Do you have a reference for the old text? Uncle G 21:19, 2005 May 24 (UTC)
  • There are many examples of 20th century and 19th century usage (and a few 21st century), especially in the French language but also in English and other languages. Gene Nygaard 12:29, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Specifically, the myriameter and myriagram are part of current United States law, added by the Act of July 28, 1866 and codified in 15 U.S.C. §205. Gene Nygaard
• Merge and Redirect to Myria, though it should probably also be transwikied to Wiktionary as an archaism that might pop up (I saw it in an early 20th-century home improvement book, but that was about the only place I've ever seen it). Haikupoet 18:44, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Why should we transwiki it, considering that Wiktionary has a myriametre article that predates this one? ☺ Uncle G 21:19, 2005 May 24 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect to Myria, plus a Wiktionary entry. Urhixidur 20:44, 2005 May 24 (UTC)
• Redirect to Obsolete metric prefixes (formerly Obsolete SI prefixes), which is what myria and myria- and much more importantly myriameter, the other spelling of this very same unit, redirect to. I just renamed that article because these never were "SI prefixes". I probably should have renamed to singular rather than plural also, but didn't think of that. I only found this vote because I was wondering why myriameter redirected there, but myriametre did not, so was checking to see if there was anything at myriametre. Gene Nygaard 12:24, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

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