Show me a single American newspaper that uses that "standard".  Or an American magazine.  Or an American encyclopedia.  Even Britannica uses month, day.

See http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=117712&tocid=0&query=christopher%20columbus&ct=eb or http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/columbusc_voyagestothenewworld.asp or http://www.nytimes.com/ or http://www.latimes.com/ or http://www.theatlantic.com/ or http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ 

Or for that matter: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/  http://www.globeandmail.com/ http://www.thepost.ie/web/Home/index.asp 

Zoe

 Sean Barrett <sean@epoptic.com> wrote:

I agree completely. We should use Zoe's standard. The format used in
English-speaking countries must apply.

Would those of you from the various components and former components of
the United Kingdom please tell us how you prefer your dates? We
Americans prefer the standard form. As The Chicago Manual of Style
explains, in "all text, including notes and bibliographies, exact dates
[are to] be written in the sequence day-month-year, without internal
punctuation." Rule 8.36.

And since no one finds 2 March 2003 confusing....

--
Sean Barrett
sean@epoptic.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Zoe
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 21:23
> To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Do we really want to confuse every
American who reads the Wikipedia?
>
> But this is the English wiki, and as such, only the format used in
English-speaking countries applies. What's anti-European, anti-African
(except for English speaking countries) is of no consequence. It's true
that the British, Australian, New Zealand version, etc., may be
different. I don't know what Canadians use.
>
> Zoe
>
> Richard Grevers wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:09:41 -0800 (PST), Zoe
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Apparently there is a move under way to change EVERY date in the
English
> > Wikipedia to "2 March" format from "March 2" format. How did this
slip
> > under the radar without a major discussion? It's a very
anti-American
> > thing to do.
> That's the first time I've been asked to consider Americans to be an
> opressed minority :-)
> (4% of the world population and they expect everyone else to suffer
their
> illogical system?)
> 2 March 2003 is logical, natural to speech, and (so long as the month
name
> is used) unambiguous.
> In your terms, "March 2" is anti British, Anti European,
Anti-Australasian,
> Anti-African etc. etc.
> --
> Richard Grevers
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