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Converting gallons per hour to Kg per second[edit]

This page should be deleted because it is unencyclopedic. It is a specific example of Conversion of units. There is no way to expand this article productively. FreplySpang 00:15, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete, no human will ever type in this title. Meelar (talk) 00:44, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as unnecessarily specific example of conversion of units. Is this somebody's homework? (Besides, Google can do this just as well: [1].) --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 00:52, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. I think this pretty much defines "idiosyncratic non-topic". -- Cyrius|✎ 02:06, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Too specific to be useful in an encyclopedia. Bovlb 03:04, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)
  • The page is even wrong. Volume per time can't be converted to mass per time. The page claims "we know that one litre of water weighs one kg" but water is not the only thing in the universe. What if I want to convert one gallon of lead per hour to kg/s? — JIP | Talk 05:50, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, unless we also want Converting miles per gallon to kilograms per second. DaveTheRed 06:00, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Agree that converting volume to mass is dodgy to say the least. Pour a couple of gallons on it and convert to heat energy. Grutness|hello? 06:40, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Agree with all the above. Delete. Mgm|(talk) 10:51, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, as per above. vlad_mv 13:06, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. Also, allowing this would be encouraging the creation of a very, very large number of articles—even if—invalid conversions like this one were excluded. Converting pounds of feathers to pounds of gold is valid, for example. Dpbsmith (talk) 14:39, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    Oh, do tell me. How do you turn feathers into gold? Mgm|(talk) 08:54, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
    You don't. But you can convert from avoirdupois to troy pounds by multiplying by 1.2153. -- Cyrius|✎ 12:53, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    Sorry, that's unencyclopedic - original research. ;-) FreplySpang 14:46, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to conversion of units, on the off-off chance that some human ever types in this title - let them do the math themselves. --BD2412 02:08, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • REDIRECT to conversion page.--ZayZayEM 07:28, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • How can this be redirected to conversion of units, when it's flat-out impossible to convert between volume per time and mass per time? I stand by my delete vote. — JIP | Talk 08:06, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      • Oh, pshaw, if you know the density of the material (oil? water? gasoline?) you can convert from volume to mass... so if people want to go to the trouble, give them all the formulae and let 'em have at it. --BD2412 21:17, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
        • Yes, and where does it say in the title of this particular article what material it is? When someone types "Converting gallons per hour to Kg per second" (where Kg is spelled wrong, at that) into the search bar, does Wikipedia magically read their mind and find out whether they mean gallons of oil, gallons of water, gallons of gasoline, gallons of blood or gallons of Chateau du Yquem 1990? — JIP | Talk 05:40, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
          • That's the beauty of Wikipedia, they can always just look up water, oil, or gasoline to find the density, then jump over to the multitude of conversion tables and... ah forget, it. I concede defeat. -- 8^D gab 03:30, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)
      • You type #REDIRECT [[conversion of units]] and press "save page". c.f Wikipedia:How to edit a page--ZayZayEM 04:09, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
        • That was not what I was asking, you know. — JIP | Talk 06:38, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete --Wtshymanski 16:40, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, do not redirect. Nothing there, nothing to add of conversion of units. Need specific substance and its density to calculate anyway; uninteresting article deals with water, I though it might be aviation fuel. Which gallons, too? Absolutely nothing salvageable. Gene Nygaard 00:30, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, nn nerdcruft. ComCat 05:36, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Do not merge, do not pass go. Jonathunder 04:25, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

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