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As a suggestion, and wherever a specific date is not required, it would be better to use an example date in which the day number is greater than 12. For example, on the demo page, 2009-01-31 would be better as an example than 2009-01-01. In that way, there will never be an example where the resulting day and month can be confused—resulting in a tighter specification. [[User:HWV258|<b><font style="color:Navy;background:LightSteelBlue;font-family:Arial" size="2"> HWV258 </font></b>]] 01:19, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
:Yes, Anderson, in this case I believe the AP style guide ''does'' promote unsound AmEng in the redundant comma. Heaven knows, we have enough commas in text to make the reader's task functionally easier, so why put up with redundant commas? The comma in the middle of the US format, regrettably, is necessary because of the jostling of the numeric items. Like the APA style guide on reference-list formatting (and that of many academic journals), there's a thoughtless acceptance of bumpety-bump commas and dots that are idle. I wouldn't stress about it if some editor wants to insist on the bumpety comma ''after'' US date format, but I wouldn't actively encourage it.
:The now-iconic phrase "September 11" is not usually "translated" into international format outside North America, reinforced by the internationally known analogue "9/11". This is yet another example of why we should not be resorting to hi-tech toy solutions to a non-problem. Intelligent (manual) control by local editors trumps the many things that would go wrong in some "son of autoformatting" bulldozer mechanism, if WP were foolish enough to agree to this risky business again. Our fingers were burnt in 2003. Let's not fall for it again in 2009. [[User:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">'''Tony'''</font >]] [[User talk:Tony1|<font color="darkgreen">(talk)</font >]] 13:54, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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