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@Eposty:@Lepricavark: Like @Corkythehornetfan: said we need to discuss this here before any more reverts occur or we all risk a block for edit warring. Eposty, as far as your "I have relatives that work in the industry" comment, that's something we call original research. My uncle is Tony Barker but I don't use add anything that cannot be sourced to his article. I did just do some research and I did find one website using fractions. 12 are two examples of ones that use decimals. Looks like its actually inconsistent on if fractions or decimals are used. So this is going to have to be a consensus.--Rockchalk71717:31, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Well if you guys want to be wrong, go ahead with decimals. I chalk it up to laziness because when typing it is easier to put ".5" instead of "1⁄2", though it is much easier to read 201⁄2 than 20.5. I will still use the fraction when entering things. posty (talk) 18:06, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
That kind of attitude is not coming to a consensus on an edit dispute. It's not laziness, its consistency. Big difference.--Rockchalk71718:27, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
If it was consistency then all websites would have decimals than fractions, which is not the case. It is much easier (i.e. lazy) to type 20.5 instead of 201⁄2 while typing. posty (talk) 22:07, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
My apologies I thought you meant we wanted to decimals because of laziness. On the websites it very well could be they just don't want to code a fraction.--Rockchalk71702:43, 21 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
