Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view/Examples

" Symbols The $ symbol is used by over 60 countries in the world. Generally $ means the United States dollar, but to always assume that irritates those people who feel equally entitled to use the symbol. Try to use US$, or USD (the ISO 4217 code). Although much less confusing, the same goes for the £ symbol: use GB£ or GBP (or UK£ or ... you get the idea). "

I'm sorry but $ is clearer for any non-native Engliskh speaker than USD.

Ericd 21:01 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)

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Can we lose this "Various cultures use differing standards of measurement" please? SI is an international standard of measurements, which only a few countries still fail to accept. Link to Wikipedia:Measurements Debate, too. -- Tarquin 23:05 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)

What part do you want to lose? The leading sentence, or the two paragraphs on the subject? For background Wikipedia:List of controversial issues includes Anti-metrication. -º¡º

Well, frankly, avoiding cultural bias in this case would mean using only SI, because those have no cultural bias. They are international, and it's only the US's cultural isolationism which causes a problem here. it's a political issue, sad but true -- Tarquin

I just read the entire Wikipedia:Measurements Debate article, and I doubt I have much new to say that someone hasn't already said in one way or another. It doesn't look like there ever was consensus, but everybody just decided to keep doing whatever they were doing before. -º¡º