just my cents when i say i weigh kg i am abusing the word weight to mean that my mass is kg i'm not abusing the word kilogram to mean that the earth pulls me down with kn i am not willing to look at each revision of that intro paragraph with my k connection it'd take me more time than it'd be worth but the revision of october in everyday usage the mass of an object in kilograms is often referred to as its weight although strictly speaking the weight of an object is the gravitational force on it measured in newtons see also kilogram force seems quite correct to me most of the section mass versus weight doesn't belong to an article about an unit of measurement if it did it would belong to the article about the pound and so on the mention of the kilogram force is relevant but i'd prefer all the rest to go to the weight article if anywhere