On the contrary, the form 2 March 2003 simply IS correct in American English. The Chicago Manual of Style prefers "that in all text, including notes and bibliographies, exact dates be written in the sequence day-month-year, without internal punctuation." Rule 8.36.
If this bot ever runs, changes will be reversible in the same way that all changes to the Wikipedia are reversible.
-- Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org]On Behalf Of The Cunctator Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 19:59 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Do we really want to confuse every American whoreads the Wikipedia?
On 3/2/03 10:39 PM, "Sean Barrett" sean@epoptic.com wrote:
What is with these straw man attacks? It is NOT going to go off in 30 minutes. Where in the world did you get that absurd idea?
Furthermore,
2/3/03 is a non-sequitur -- no one has ever suggested it. The discussion involves only 2 March 2003 versus March 2, 2003.
What, exactly, is confusing about 2 March 2003?
It's simply not correct in American English.
It sounds like Yoda-speech to the American ear.
The Date-bot needs to be reversible.
_______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l