Skyring wrote:
There's very little debate on which date format
should be used for
articles on U.S. or UK subjects, but for articles on (say) France or
Brazil, there is a push to use U.S. date format, despite both of those
nations using International format.
There's no such push at all, and it's a
bit disingenuous to claim so, as
the only people making a "push" to convert date formats from one to
another are those in favor of a day-month-year universal standard. The
long-respected status quo is that if an article is on a subject that
isn't strongly tied to a particular dialect of English, then it uses
whatever the original author used, including for spellings, date
formats, etc. Changing from one to another is discouraged, as it's a
noise edit, and rather impolite to change one correct English dialect to
another, especially as there are much more important things to work on.
-Mark