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Zeroty

I find neither reference to zeroty supported outside of echos of Wikipedia, and personal codes of a few individuals. (I'd like there to be a pronounceable name for the first and second decades of a century, but I don't think this is it.) — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 03:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

It appears that zeroty is a translation of the Italian zeranta. The only lead I have on this is the interwiki link to the article in the Italian Wikipedia. Ae-a 19:14, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I have heard, and I can't possibly recall where, the first decade of a (in fact, this) century referred to the naughties. Possibly the second decade is the teens, but I wasn't around at the beginning of the last century to know if either of these were used! Xantharius 08:45, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I vaguely recall a poll taken by a local newspaper in 1999 about the name of the decade 2000–2009. I think the winning name was the "Uh-ohs" but that doesn't really seem encyclopedic. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 12:27, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

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Double-Oh model railway gauge and removing the article

The Double-Oh model railway gauge is not two zeros but two letter Os. This entry should be removed. I actually think the whole page can be deleted as it is unimformative. --Timdownie 20:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, I tend to agree, but I'm a bit of a deletionist.... — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 21:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

This page is availible is a few other languages as well, so it must be somewhat important. Maybe it needs a cleanup to bring it up to standard, rather then deletion? Unfortuantly I can't read the other languages, so I don't know if they are any good. --DanielBC 10:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Both the Italian and German pages (according to babelfish) are translations of earlier versions of this page. Perhaps someone in their Project Numbers thought it was a good idea. I don't know enough of either language to propose a crosswiki delete. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 14:07, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

The OO gauge of model railroads is sometimes also called 00 gague so I've restored it. Ae-a 19:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Taking out zeroty stuff

I took out the "zeroty" stuff which is clearly a neologism, and added a link to OO for the confused. If there is a fear of removing the article, perhaps someone could work what remains into a disambiguation page? :) --iMb~Meow 05:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Model railway scale/gauge ratio naming conventions (zero or Oh)

Hi All

The letter Oh in scale/gauge ratio naming conventions should not be used. The correct character to be used in all of this is the numeric zero.

This is from the historic fact that when the Gauges 3, 2 and 1 were prevalent before the second world war and a smaller one was introduced they used the progressively smaller number of 0 (zero) as in Gauge 0. When the scale and gauge was halved for the new table top railway (literally half Gauge 0) the term H0 was used. The second character being a zero.

The confusion has set in with the pronounciation of this zero as Oh as in reciting a telephone number in the UK.

The situation has not been helped in that Hornby-Dublo was used as a brand name for a 00 range of models.

All naming conventions should reflect this use of the number zero.

Examples used in the UK market are as follows: 0 gauge, 0n16.5 gauge, 0n14 gauge, 0n9 gauge, 00 gauge, 00n9 gauge, H0 gauge, H0n9 gauge and 000 gauge. Other ratios of course are G, S, P4, EM, P87, TT, N and Z which are not affected by this.

The use of the term 'scale' is rarely used in the UK. The most popular UK model railway magazine and longest in print Railway Modeller, along with its sister magazine Continental Modeller, use the above terms correctly when describing a particular scale/gauge ratio which can trace its origin back to Gauge 0.

Thus all naming conventions within Wikipedia should in this context change to use the number zero instead of the letter Oh.Adrianmc 18:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

German Toilets?

Half thought about deleting that particular usage as there is no Wikipedia article on it (And why would there be?) but it may be true, so I left it. Can anyone confirm or deny? --Haruth (talk) 16:23, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

It's true. We were taught it at school by a German teacher from Germany. Also in Slovakia I have seen 1 pub which marks it's toilets this way (the British WC is much more common though). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.212.36.193 (talk) 20:32, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Use on calculators

some calculators have a button labelled with 00, i behaves like pressing zero twice. Is this worth mentioning? --95.89.52.196 (talk) 20:04, 16 April 2016 (UTC)