On 2/7/06, bobble wik bobblewik@mail.com wrote:
The edits relate to date links and implementing WP:MOSDATE, WP:MOS-L, and WP:CONTEXT. Several editors have been working on this. Whenever anyone has disagreed with the implementation, I have directed them towards those policy guidelines and suggested they seek a change in the policy.
This isn't an acceptable response. These guidelines have wide support but aren't Wikipedia policy. Style is a matter of personal taste, and the manual of style is useful when it's used in the sense for which it was intended: to enable editors to work towards a harmonious appearance in their own edits across the project. What you're doing in trying to implement the manual's recommendation across the whole encyclopedia is certainly unnecessary, and probably needlessly alienates other editors.