Wikijunior talk:Solar System/About weight and gravity
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This is an alternate version of the About gravity, mass, and weight module which:
- Tries to stay simple and succinct (although I realise there's room for improvement, e.g. shorter sentence lengths, fewer subclauses, etc);
- Does not refer to mass;
- Does not refer to units;
- Does not state that weight changes, but rather that (underline emphases added):
- "You may've read or heard people say that your weight would be different on the Moon...";
- "[the bathroom scale] would say you weighed less than when you weighed yourself with it on the Earth. So people say your weight has changed..."
- "it's as if ... you have no weight..."
If people think this approach is a starter then I think a couple of illustrations or diagrams and perhaps a table of what a bathroom scale would say you weighed on other planets would add interest to the page.
David Kernow 02:30, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
- IMHO (this is a talk page after all, I'm not adding content here), the whole premise that we should avoid units, nor discuss differences between mass and weight is simply a school of thought on this topic, and just one of several approaches. The whole point to this discussion is to describe the effects of a variation of gravity from one place to another. The problem with the previous Wikijunior Solar System/About gravity, mass, and weight is that it violated NPOV standards with no attempt to have a compromise or come to a true neutral point of view on the topic.
- This module is a fork of content, and as such will eventually have to be reconsiled and/or merged with the other module. It is fine to try and write another module that gives an alternative point of view seeking compromise and still being technically accurate. Perhaps that is exactly what we need to do: Write several different modules and then try to "vote" on which one is best for inclusion into Wikijunior Solar System. Thanks for trying to be a solution to the problem rather than a cause.--Rob Horning 16:53, 28 October 2005 (UTC)