Timwi wrote:
It seems that people want the article on the recent attacks in Madrid to be at [[11 March, 2001 Madrid attacks]] rather than [[March 11, 2001 Madrid attacks]]. Myself, I don't care about the date format itself, but I hate that this could create inconsistency with the [[September 11, 2004 attacks]].
Shouldn't we be consistent in this respect across at least one Wikipedia?
Well, we Americans (er, I mean U.S. residents) being so imperialistic, we have a long tradition on Wikipedia of forcing our conventions on the rest of the world. I'm joking of course.
In the tables for [[Montana]] (a state in the United States) and [[Germany]] (the country in Europe), we learn that Montana is 381,156 km^2 and Germany 357,022 km^2. To Americans such as myself, these numbers have no intuitive meaning. I know via conversion factors how long a kilometer is, if I stop to think about it, but still the numbers mean nothing.
This bugs me, but I consider that particular argument to have been lost a long time ago, and with good reason I suppose. (Although I think in the case of km^2, it would be sensible to express both numbers and not omit mi^2.)
As for the Madrid date, I express no opinion other than a fervent desire that we not get too heated up about it.
--Jimbo