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{{SupplementSuperseded|[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers]]#Dates, months and years}}

{{Historical|comment=<br/>'''The data autoformatting feature is currently disabled on the English Wikipedia'''}}

{{Rejected|date=September 2008<!--Consensus actually rejected this in two 2008 RfCs, reaffirmed in a followup in 2009, but the feature wasn't disabled until February 2013.-->|comment=<br/>'''The data autoformatting feature is [[mw:Manual:$wgUseDynamicDates|no longer part of the MediaWiki software]]'''}}

{{Supplement|[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers]]}}

Since at least 2004, it has been possible for registered users to set a preference regarding the way dates appear to them. Wikilinking all {{nowrap|dates&thinsp;/&thinsp;years}} purely for the use of autoformatting is now discouraged (See [[MOS:UNLINKDATES]]).

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| rowspan="2" | '''What you type'''

| colspan="5" | '''What logged-in registered users see<br>(settings on first row)'''

| rowspan="2" | '''What others will see'''&thinsp;^{<span id="ref_A" />[[#endnote_A|'''[A]''']]}

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| January 15, 2001

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| [[May 15|15 May]] [[2005]]

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| &nbsp;&nbsp;<nowiki>[[2005-05-15]]</nowiki>&thinsp;^{<span id="ref_B" />[[#endnote_B|'''[B]''']]}

| [[May 15]], [[2005]]

| [[May 15|15 May]] [[2005]]

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| [[2005]]-[[May 15|05-15]]

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| align="left" colspan="8" | <div class="references-small"><ol class="references" style="list-style-type:upper-alpha"><li id="endnote_A">[[#ref_A|'''^''']] Non-registered users and registered users not logged in</li><li id="endnote_B">[[#ref_B|'''^''']] Editors are discouraged from using this format since non-registered users, who constitute the majority of readers, may see a hard-to-read date format.</li></ol></div>

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Even when surrounded by square brackets, those dates that do not contain both a day and a month—such as solitary months, solitary days of the week, solitary years, decades, centuries, and month-year combinations—are not autoformatted. One could make them links by using the standard piped-link notation, but the same advice applies here: such links should not be created unless they are of high value to the reader. (See [[WP:CONTEXT]].)

*Autoformatting does not function for piped links to date elements, such as "<nowiki>[[20 June|the 20th of June]]</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>[[1997 in South African sport|1997]]</nowiki>". (Several forms of piped links breakoverride the date-formatting function.)

* Links to date ranges in the same calendar month, such as "<nowiki>[[December 13–17]]</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>the night of [[30/31 May]]</nowiki>" cause autoformatting to fail. The autoformatting mechanism will output such dates in a damaged form: '''30/May 31''', etc.

Date elements on disambiguation pages and section headings should never be linked; the same applies to quotations, unless the original quote is linked.

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