On 1/1/07, Christopher Thieme <cdthieme(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:04:54 -0500
From: "Rory Stolzenberg" <rory096(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Opinions sought: linking source-access dates
per MoS?
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
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On 1/1/07, Rory Stolzenberg" <rory096(a)gmail.com> wrote:
... 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&…
work, displaying the reader's chosen format." It's necessary for
technical reasons, not because people want to read the date articles.