Talk:World War II casualties/Archives/2013/February

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Edit request on 22 February 2013

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On this page, very often some total numbers were shown: like total number of victims in tables. These numbers were obtained by summing from different sources with different precisions. Therefore, by math rules the precision of result is very low, at least lower than lowest precision in the sum. However, the total numbers were presented and repeatedly mentioned with higher precision. For example, sum of 500,000 and 123,465 **is not** 623,465 but simply 600,000. Please have this in mind, and correct it until more precise references are found! VLukovic (talk) 22:08, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

What figures are you referring to? In any case the numbers add down to the total of the all figures. We cannot have a column of figues that do not add down.--Woogie10w (talk) 22:51, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. And per what Woogie10w said. Vaca tion 9 03:28, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Actually it's a good idea. I am so used to preparing financials that add down to the penny. But this is Wikipedia not a bank--Woogie10w (talk) 14:36, 23 February 2013 (UTC)