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::::*I fear you have taken a worse-case view. I'll let the four or five mentioned take over if they wish. [[User:HWV258|<b><font style="color:Navy;background:LightSteelBlue;font-family:Arial" size="2">&nbsp;HWV258&nbsp;</font></b>]] 22:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

*"Resort to obscenity"—Anderson, a good start would be if you could stop obsessing about my pooh at [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Workshop|ArbCom]]. You appear to have led the writing of paragraphs about it. I wish you would desist ''now''; it is offensive. [[User:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">'''Tony'''</font >]] [[User talk:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">(talk)</font >]] 10:30, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

== Bits - IEEE 1541 defines b as symbol not bit ==

[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Units and symbols often written incorrectly]]

" By extension, the symbols for the units of data rate [[kilobit per second]], [[megabit per second]] and so on are ''kbit/s'' (not ''kbps'' or ''Kbps''), ''Mbit/s'' (not ''Mbps'' or ''mbps''), etc. Similarly, [[kilobyte per second]] and [[megabyte per second]] are ''kB/s'' (not ''kBps'' or ''KBps'') and ''MB/s'' (not ''Mbps'' or ''MBps''). "

This contradicts somehow [[Bit#Abbreviation and symbol]] "[[IEEE 1541]] a commonly-quoted relevant standard, specifies "b" to be the unit symbol for bit and "B" to be that for byte. This convention is also widely used in computing."

[[User:TechControl|TechControl]] ([[User talk:TechControl|talk]]) 15:36, 21 January 2009 (UTC)