On 5/22/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/21/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
These will all render the same way, depending on your preferences. Of all the strange MediaWiki formatting things, this one is actually pretty simple :)
I prefer entering dates as [[2006-12-24]] in natural sort order, and to drive the point home to editors that come after me that date display is a preference and you don't need to edit date links for style. If it helps a newbie editor 'get' that dates work that way, all to the good.
Perhaps you should consider the vast continent of Wikipedia readers who don't have accounts (or date preferences), and not the small village of actual editors with accounts and date preferences set.
The MOS is a result of collaboration and consensus, and having to go round tidying up after people who are trying to make some self-centred point against consensus is work that I'd prefer not to have to do.
-- Peter in Canberra