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Bermicourt just wrote a new article,
vertical metre, which is similar (although not perfectly identical) to this one. I would recommend merging the two, because of the strong overlap. There is a proliferation of very short articles about measuring vertical height, and I don't think any of them will ever become B-class. —
hike395 (
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13:25, 29 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Except that they have distinct meanings. Height above sea level is a distance, measured from a datum, and may be in any linear unit (typically feet or metres). A vertical metre is a specific linear unit, not a distance, and is typically used to measure intermediate distances, i.e. not from a datum, or to measure cumulative height gains. The article is inevitably short because it's only just been created and, in any case, articles on units tend to be short because, well, they're quite easy to explain. Shortness has a beauty and simplicity of its own, lol. But feel free to flesh it out. I came across several specialist uses for vertical metres of which I've cited just a couple... --
Bermicourt (
talk)
13:36, 29 December 2017 (UTC)reply
Per
WP:OVERLAP (and
WP:DICDEF), our readers don't need separate articles on every term for measuring height/altitude/elevation. I think our readers would benefit from a
broader single article that compares and contrasts all of the different ways of performing that measurement. That would be a useful and interesting article that can easily become B-class (or better). —
hike395 (
talk)
13:46, 29 December 2017 (UTC)reply
That's a valid point, but much wider than these 2 articles which aren't a good merge in themselves.
Metre and
vertical metre might be a better option since they're both units, but they would need reworking. Simply jamming the text together would create an odd article IMHO. Suggest you raise the overall point at
WP:WikiProject Measurement, maybe with proposals for specific article mergers in the field of height/elevation/altitude. For example, despite the outcome of the discussion above, it seems sensible to have one article on "height above sea level" and include "feet above sea level" and "metres above sea level" and the various datums used in all of that. But I bet that will be problematic because of the US/non-US divide over the use of elevation vs. height and feet vs. metres. Which may partly explain the present situation. --
Bermicourt (
talk)
14:33, 29 December 2017 (UTC)reply
"Vertical metre" is an aberration: it flies in the face of the Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SI) -- of which metre is part of, before you say we should not be bound by the tyranny of the SI. More specifically, section 7.5 (Unacceptability of mixing information with units) states:
"When one gives the value of a quantity, any information concerning the quantity or its conditions of measurement must be presented in such a way as not to be associated with the unit. This means that quantities must be defined so that they can be expressed solely in acceptable units (...) Examples: the Pb content is 5 ng/L but not: 5 ng Pb/L or 5 ng of lead/L"
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