So basically, you're demanding that scientific articles use a pre-scientific form of notation simply because those who authored the articles (who may or may not be conversant in scientific style and format) happen to put it there first? Ridiculous. All I have to say is that I guess I'm not one of those editors with limitless amounts of free time to mess with other people's edits in pursuit of an agenda, so I really don't have time to pursue an edit war with you over this. However, expect to be challenged on these edits in the next week or so, as well as a challenge to this stupid bit of Wikipedia instruction creep.