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This page needs Infobox architect. --Storye book (talk) 12:29, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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done. --Storye book (talk) 08:28, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]


What weight of remains?

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The article says "In 1862 he was involved in the relocation of London's burial grounds, moving more than one hundredweight of human remains." (The "Did You Know" item that led me to the article repeats that statistic.) But the boxed quote in the article says "There were 1,035 cwt of human remains sent in these cases alone." A "cwt" is the same as a "hundredweight" (since this was Britain, probably 112 pounds). Technically, the first statement is true -- he DID move more than one hundredweight; he moved over one thousand! Was the word "thousand" inadvertently removed from the text?Gms3591 (talk) 10:21, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that - I didn't write that hook and I missed the error and copied it into the header. My fault, then. I have added the word, "thousand", to the statement in the article.--Storye book (talk) 10:58, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, my bad, I read it as 1.035 hundredweight (which would be a strange mixture indeed of decimal and 'old money'). I should really know my cwt's, having rung church bells for many years! Shame we didn't spot this before it reached the Main Page. Sionk (talk) 12:23, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, we're all helping to get all that DYK stuff through the mill, that's all that matters, and there's a lot of stuff to shift at the moment. Thank you for your sterling work on DYK - it doesn't go unnoticed! --Storye book (talk)
I need to apologize too, for a bit of cultural ignorance in my original remark. I didn't stop to think that outside the US (where I live), the comma and period (dot; full stop) are reversed in usage. All I was thinking about was that no one would bother to mention if someone moved 112 pounds of remains, but if he moved 112,000 pounds, that was worthy of remark. So I merely assumed the comma was being used to separate thousands from hundreds, not as a decimal mark. I'll try to be aware of that in the future. Gms3591 (talk) 11:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, and thank you again for bring attention to this. --Storye book (talk) 12:08, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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