Talk:List of unusual units of measurement/Candidates

message: I'm not sure if this unit of measurement is applicable, as it's both obscure and obsolete:
:Cran - A unit of volume specifically for herring.  It has most recently been defined as 45 British wine gallons (UK) or 42 British wine gallons (US).  More can be found on sizes.com's article.
--Adamrush 17:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fish-specific units of measurement 

message: The thickness of a hair —or more often, specifically "The thickness of a human hair"— generally meaning a distance that's almost but not quite too small to see. The specificity of a human hair is curious since there is no evidence that hair from other mammalian species is any less reliable as a unit of measurement. Webster's Dictionary defines a hairsbreadth as exactly 1/48th inch (0.53 mm) which is curious since the thickness of an actual human hair varies from 1/140th inch (0.18 mm) to 1/1400th inch (0.018 mm) depending on the genetics of the donor, the colour of the hair and from what part of the body the hair was taken. Due to this large range of interpretations, statements such as "half the thickness of a human hair" should be viewed with appropriate skepticism.
:issues: Usage along the lines of "That is 5 hair thicknesses" was not suggested in the article or checkable cites. Rhialto 22:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short distance: Hairsbreadth 

message: A stone's throw is a measure of distance that can be traced back to the first century (see Luke 22:41 in the Bible), that is used to this day as a very approximate measure. No accurate definition exists, although it is sometimes seen equalled to 25 fathoms (46 m). In most cases "bare et stenkast væk" (Danish, meaning: just one stone's throw away) is taken to mean "quite nearby". Spitting distance is another similar, self-explanatory measurement of distance.
A stone's throw is often used by estate agents when describing the location of a house. Their concept is usually different, and in actuality can describe much larger distances.
:not a unit of measurement, as people never refer to 4 stones' throws or 2 spitting distances Rhialto 07:06, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Length: stone's throw/spitting distance

message: This is a term that utilitarians use to designate a unit of pleasure used in ethical mathematics. Its opposite is a dolor, which is a unit of pain or displeasure. The term "hedon" comes from the Greek word for pleasure. 
:Issues - A search for <<hedon -wikipedia -"town council" -yorkshire>> yielded 406,000 hits, only one in the first 50 was relevant (noted above). A search with the above criteria plus "two hedons" yielded no hits. This unit does not appear to be sufficiently notable yet. Rhialto 02:11, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pleasure: hedon

message: The following entries have been moved here as a holding area. They can only be considered strange in that their usage is almost exclusively non-anglophone. As such, they are only strange because they are foreign. Allowing units in because they are foreign would invite a merger of every page that lists foreign units, making the page impossibly large. These units would most usefully be merged with  a page on that specific country's weights and measures, merged with an existing article on that specific unit, or used as the base of an entirely new page. Rhialto 02:22, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Foreign units