[WikiEN-l] Opinions sought: linking source-access dates per MoS?

[Rory Stolzenberg]

On 1/1/07, Christopher Thieme <cdthieme at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:04:54 -0500
> From: "Rory Stolzenberg" <rory096 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Opinions sought: linking source-access dates
>        per MoS?
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> On 1/1/07, Rory Stolzenberg" <rory096 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > ... Full dates are an exception to WP:CONTEXT.
> >
>
> And just where does WP:CONTEXT or any other guideline say that?  From my
> reading it doesn't.  Exceptions to rules or guidelines can't solely exist
> in
> the lacunae of convention and consensus, they need to be explicitly
> written.  Until it's written as a de jure exception to WP:CONTEXT, I'd
> very
> much inclined to disagree with the above statement.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher D. Thieme
> (User:ExplorerCDT)
>
> P.S. Is it just me or does Wikipedia need a policy house-cleaning to fix
> up
> these contradictions and ambiguities? ~cdt
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WP:DATE. "If a date includes both a month and a day, then the date should
almost always be linked to allow readers' date
preferences<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Preferences#Date_format>to
work, displaying the reader's chosen format." It's necessary for
technical reasons, not because people want to read the date articles.