Talk:Short ton

Style question

"... the long ton (2,240 pounds or 1,016.0469088 kilograms..."

• Does that really need to be specified to the (if I'm counting correctly) tenth of a milligram? Significant figure - BrianAshe (talk) 01:52, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Brewer's Guild, London

Does this organisation actually exist? I can find no reference to it, but the Worshipful Company of Brewers exists, and its crest features barrels. However, the heraldic description does not refer to tuns but to "three Kilderkins Sable hooped Gold", and a kilderkin is a quarter of a hogshead, in other words equivalent to half a barrel, a more appropriate volume for a beer cask. Plantsurfer (talk) 10:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Should item 2 be "American" ?

It looks as though it should be something like "UK and commonwealth". 121.99.30.176 (talk) 08:18, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

What is the Abbreviation?

Please identify the abbreviation for this unit in the article. There are three units named "ton/tonne" and it's impossible to guess which one "t" and "T" mean. Wikipedia should clearly disambiguate this. 2601:441:4680:3230:81A3:8C2B:198B:F127 (talk) 00:32, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Citation needed for "most commonwealth countries followed the UK".

Because there's 54 countries in the commonwealth including India, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and many others. And as far as I can find out, they use metric, not imperial like we do in the UK. So proof is needed, because the person who wrote it suggesting that the majority of those 54 countries use imperial 92.239.58.93 (talk) 22:39, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Are separate articles needed for "Ton", "Short Ton" and "Long Ton"?

Added to Talk on all three. There is probably more to be gained by dicussing them under a single artticle than by having three where the Long and Short articles don't add much. 146.198.169.223 (talk) 12:12, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

I suspect at least tonne should have its own article, being the metric unit. Non-metric short ton and long ton could probably get away with one article, but separate doesn't seem so bad to me. Gah4 (talk) 05:09, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Don't we already have 3 separate articles? Dondervogel 2 (talk) 06:30, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

I think the suggestion was to combine some, and I was disagreeing. Gah4 (talk) 17:55, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I did not read your post carefully enough. I agree with your position. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 19:11, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

force

While short, and I suspect long, ton are supposed to be units of mass, they are sometimes used as weight units. Maybe more often than tonne. Should the article mention this, and should it discourage, or not, the use? Gah4 (talk) 05:11, 2 April 2026 (UTC)