Talk:Orders of magnitude (converter)

Permission to massively link to convertion calculator pages at: www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/res2/calcs/calaindx.htm (http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/res2/calcs/calaindx.htm)

I asked:

 Thank you for providing this great resource!

 I have been adding links to your converters from various pages at
  which is a free on-line, not for profit encyclopedia
 that is built by hundreds of volunteers.

 I know I should have asked permission to do this first and I apologize for
 not doing that -- but your calculators are so perfect that I started linking
 them right away.

 If this is not to your liking I will remove or modify the links as you wish.
 Here is an example of how I am linking your pages;
 /wiki/Density

 Our website is an open wiki so you can edit that page and its link to your
 page to however you like (if you edit the external link, I will follow that
 style for the other links I have made to your website -- space, Wikipedia
 style and reason permitting of course).

F.Tapson who is the author of each page responded:

 No problem.
 I always welcome links (isn't that what the Web is all about?)
 It is copying that I object to. I fail to understand how so many people
 feel it is OK to build their own Website using other people's material!
 I have just had a look at the Wikipedia. Very nice idea which I have now
 bookmarked.
 Thanks for letting me know.

The converter is a very useful resource to link to. But wouldn't it be safer to only link from one Wikipedia article, in case the URL changes in the future? -- Tarquin

That notion did cross my mind. But since I have notified the author about our extensive linking to his pages he will probably set up legacy links when/if he reorganizes or moves. Besides I plan on being here for some time so if links get broken I will fix them. I think that having these links wherever they are appropriate will be most useful. For example, the country template now only lists square kilometres for area in order to save space. However since there is a link to that article via km² that in turn has an external link to an area converter, then all is well with not including square miles. --mav

I think that links to Conversion of units (which of course should have integrated links to the unit converter) would be easier to maintain and more informative to the readers. AxelBoldt 08:55 Sep 2, 2002 (PDT)

Creating this sub-page to cut down on the size of Talk:Orders of magnitude. -- John Owens 22:56 Apr 1, 2003 (UTC)