On 5/22/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/21/07, Oskar Sigvardsson
<oskarsigvardsson(a)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