[WikiEN-l] Linking Dates

[Wily D]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>> Delirium wrote:
>>> ... strongly discourage edits that change one to
>> another, unless the article's strongly associated with a specific
>> English-speaking country where one dialect predominates.
>
> I'm puzzled here. Why is it only English-speaking nations that use dates?
>
> --
> Peter in Canberra
>
Because it's English Wikipedia.  It's harder to claim there's a
preferred dialect of English to use for the article on French Guiana.