2009/2/6 White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com:
We are now forced to use US style dates... Thus it is the American Encyclopedia internationals (non USians) should feel uncomfortable in visiting let alone editing.
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In the past we had multiple correct ways. For example the use of ISO dates (aka [[yyyy-mm-dd]] dates) were encouraged. Users could alter their settings to display the dates in any way they please. The ISO dates were drafted as a compromise to the international versus US date war. Now US dates are hard coded. You do not get to alter it.
"hard coded"? This is news to me and news to the Manual of Style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSNUM#Full_date_formatting
Perhaps you could provide some evidence to back up this assertion?