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# While I don't care much about having a user preference to make all dates into one format, something like <nowiki>{{#formatdate}}</nowiki> combined with a <nowiki>{{DEFAULTDATEFORMAT}}</nowiki> magic word to set the default for the whole page is necessary to avoid either forcing all date-handling templates to have a "dateformat" parameter on ''every use'' or forcing all date-handling templates to allow any arbitrary garbage in their "date" parameters and forgo any possibility of date manipulation. I also see no point in not allowing those who want the feature to have it, and frankly the "arguments against" above reek of [[Fear, uncertainty and doubt|FUD]] and [[appeal to authority|logical fallacy]] with no real substance. [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 23:14, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
#Concur with Anomie, autoformatting is preferential in most cases where possible, even in a few areas outside of dates. <font face="Trebuchet MS"><b>— [[User:Neurolysis|<font color="#5A3696">neuro</font>]]</b><sup><i>[[User talk:Neurolysis|<font color="#5A3696">(talk)</font>]][[WP:Editor review/Neurolysis|(review)]]</i></sup></font> 23:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
# I find it much nicer and easier ''as a reader'' to have dates autoformatted into a single style. I find shifting formats much more distracting than spelling variants like -or v. -our or -ize v. ise. [[User:Eluchil404|Eluchil404]] ([[User talk:Eluchil404|talk]]) 00:01, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
=====I oppose the general concept of autoformatting=====
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