Regardless of who speaks what, the original poster is referring to debates over which format to use when. Ex: January 1, 2009 ; 1 January 2009 ; or even 2009 January 1.
With the automatic date formatting... People that *cared* about which one they saw when reading articles could just change it in their preferences. Now the only way to see dates in their preferred format is to change articles to their format. This creates tension and disputes, similar to how the spelling differences of Canadian, English, US, Australia, etc cased disputes. (and still do cause disputes). I think there are a few entries in [[WP:LAME]] on that topic. If auto formatting is tossed aside long term, we will have to create conventions for articles similar to how spelling works to prevent more lame editwars. On 1/17/09, Skyring <skyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Delirium <delir...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
