Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll/Autoformatting responses: Difference between revisions
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#'''Support'''. I feel that Linked dates would be good as it would help avoid conflicts as when Tropical cyclones transfer basins it causes headaches for WPTC members. Also i feel that if we are meant to link to "relevent articles" then why shouldnt we link to the date articles? [[User:Jason Rees|Jason Rees]] ([[User talk:Jason Rees|talk]]) 23:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
#'''Support'''. Date formatting enables the reader to quickly understand dates, and everyone has their preference (I set mine a while back). For unregistered users, it would be a pipe dream to eventually combine autoformatting with either OS/browser locale settings (if accessable from the web server) or by inferring for the country where the IP address ___domain orginates (using some kind of GeoIP database). <tt>+<font color="#008000">[[User:Mwtoews|m]]</font><font color="#6B3FA0">[[User talk:Mwtoews|t]]</font></tt> 00:56, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
#'''Support''' as the best solution to the related article inconsistencies, edit wars and the policy deadlocks that result without it (e.g. the above-mentioned [[WP:WPTC]] situation not to mention the historic inability to achieve consensus with date format proposals [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Proposal on international date format|such as this]]). Autoformatting provides a superior ability to adapt and distribute Wikipedia content in a global environment. Date format differences carry systemic bias issues e.g. MDY carries a particularly American systemic bias which if enforced on many articles would reflect poorly on Wikipedia as a global project (and that's [[WP:NPOV]]). Also some date formats used in practice ([[ISO 8601]], YMD) are excluded by policy, but could be retrieved with autoformatting. Most of the capability is already implemented in Wikimedia - it's [[wiktionary:low-hanging fruit|low-hanging fruit]] in terms of [[Internationalization and localization|i18n and L10n]] that should be cleaned up for date ranges and non-registered users, then we should move forward and once again make good use of it. [[User:Dl2000|Dl2000]] ([[User talk:Dl2000|talk]]) 01:18, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
=====I oppose the general concept of autoformatting=====
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