Talk:Inch of mercury

message: :Inches --agr 16:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What are the measurements of the column?

message: InHg → Inch of mercury – I believe spelled-out names are a part of the naming conventions, but I can't find the chapter and verse right now. Note that currently inches of mercury redirects to inHg, but inch of mercury redirects to pressure. Indefatigable 23:09, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
*oppose, I think. Titling it "inch of mercury" sounds like it's an article about an inch of mercury; it isn't, but an article about a scientific unit. I can't think of any other scientific unit whose name also has a commonsense meaning (aside from those named for people, which are already necessarily disambiguated because of that). Furthermore, let's make life easy for authors of other articles by minimizing the extent to which they need to use the pipe trick. Doops |  talk 23:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but some people hate redirects and go around changing them all into pipe tricks which makes the original author feel guilty. And "inch of mercury" sounds like it's an article about an inch of mercury. I realize that it's unlikely that such an article would ever exist; so perhaps it doesn't matter that much. Maybe I'm being overly perfectionist. But you see the notion? Doops |  talk 20:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

text: *I Remember when CmH2O was the title of another pressure unit.  What an ugly title that was, an the uppercase "I" in this title is as ugly as that C in centimeters of water.  Gene Nygaard 03:37, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move - 2006

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
*oppose, I think. Titling it "inch of mercury" sounds like it's an article about an inch of mercury; it isn't, but an article about a scientific unit. I can't think of any other scientific unit whose name also has a commonsense meaning (aside from those named for people, which are already necessarily disambiguated because of that). Furthermore, let's make life easy for authors of other articles by minimizing the extent to which they need to use the pipe trick. Doops |  talk 23:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but some people hate redirects and go around changing them all into pipe tricks which makes the original author feel guilty. And "inch of mercury" sounds like it's an article about an inch of mercury. I realize that it's unlikely that such an article would ever exist; so perhaps it doesn't matter that much. Maybe I'm being overly perfectionist. But you see the notion? Doops |  talk 20:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

text: *I Remember when CmH2O was the title of another pressure unit.  What an ugly title that was, an the uppercase "I" in this title is as ugly as that C in centimeters of water.  Gene Nygaard 03:37, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Voting

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 30 "Hg. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:26, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "30 "Hg" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]