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:Second, I am going to close this request until consensus can be determined. Let's not worry about ''why'' the module is the way it is, but whether it should be changed. For example, does it make sense to have different abbrevs for "infant" and "non-infant" statuses? Should this module be updated to better conform to the MOS? [[User:Primefac|Primefac]] ([[User talk:Primefac|talk]]) 12:24, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
::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)
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)