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Line 13: Autoformatting dates has had several disadvantages: * Its effects can only be seen by ~~the small minority of readers who are~~by registered editors ~~and~~ who ~~have selected~~select a date preference ('''My preferences → Date and time → Date format'''). (As with other interface modifications, unregistered users are unable to access Wikipedia's preference settings and cannot choose a date format preference.) Therefore, most of the very individuals who have been largely responsible for the correctness and good style of articles have not seen what the vast majority{{fact\|date=November 2008}} of readers see. As a result, editors did not notice that the source code often had two (or possibly more) date formats in the same article, while most users saw inconsistent date formats on the same page. Some dates were entered in source code in one or more of the last two formats. While most editors did not notice this, most users saw a format that was much less familiar to them than either MDY or DMY.

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