On 5/22/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/21/07, Skyring skyring@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Actually, I don't think the MOS says that any supported date format is incorrect - at least, it did not when I last read that section. Thus, entering dates in any supported format is not 'against consensus'. The entire point of user date preferences and the way they were implemented was exactly because no consensus on these things could be reached.
So if I add a sentence to the [[George W Bush]] article describing today's events and I begin "On [[23 May]] [[2007]]..." then that's not incorrect? After all, International Dating is a supported format.