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::Thanks for your considered words, Primefac. Regarding this issue, I no longer have skin in this game as I've mostly abandoned en.wiki, but that said I've never been one to treat MOS as gospel that must be rigidly adhered to. It is a guideline that editors ''can'' use to create a more uniform appearance for the project, but following it is not mandatory. If you think it should be, then get it promoted to policy. Now, non-breaking spaces are a fine change to make, and a good call to keep things from wrapping. However, I don't think that changing "m" to "min" here is good, since in most circumstances it should be obvious based on how and where it's being used. (As for {{tl|Age for infant}}, what it prescribes ''is'' weird, but "days" doesn't seem to abbreviate in actual application, so who knows what's going on there.) <span style="font-variant:small-caps; white-space:nowrap; text-shadow:3px 2px 6px slateblue;">— [[User:Huntster|Huntster]] <small>([[User talk:Huntster|t]] [[Special:Emailuser/Huntster|@]] [[Special:Contributions/Huntster|c]])</small></span> 16:06, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
:: {{reply|Primefac}} The general consensus has been established in the MOS:NUM discussion I've linked above. From [[WP:CONLEVEL]], it should prevail over any local consensus (which, regarding the current wrong format, wasn't really established anywhere). Moreover, almost all articles using {{para|abbr|on}} found by Johnuniq (see below) are about astronomy or spaceflights, and their corresponding [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Manual of Style]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight/Style guide]] have also established consensus to "follow the main Manual of Style"/"conform to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style", only with some stricter requirements to use UTC, 24-hour time and SI units (in which "m" doesn't mean "minute"). If you think that some other consensus needs to be established or changed, please tell explicitly. (And please explain what exactly did you mean by "don't put words into their mouths" or apologize.) — [[User:Mikhail Ryazanov|Mikhail Ryazanov]] ([[User talk:Mikhail Ryazanov|talk]]) 04:43, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
:::I'll give a couple more days for feedback, but so far I am not seeing any significant opposition to the proposed update with the few comments that have come in the last few days. [[User:Primefac|Primefac]] ([[User talk:Primefac|talk]]) 12:09, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
If anyone wants to examine how abbr=on is used, see [[User:Johnuniq/sandbox]] ([[Special:PermanentLink/1234955794|permalink]]) which shows 297 {{tl|time interval}} in 77 articles. These are the only ones that used abbr=on in the all-articles dump from 1 July 2024. [[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|talk]]) 00:53, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
:Inspecting all occurrences of {{tl|age in days}} shows that none use <code>show unit=abbr</code>. Similarly, none of {{tl|age for infant}} use <code>abbr=on</code>. [[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|talk]]) 02:20, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
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