Revision as of 10:19, 17 March 2009 edit Ckatz (talk \| contribs) Administrators 82,954 edits This is accurate, neutral, and does not invlove unverified "small minority" claims. It is quite specific. ← Previous edit		Revision as of 10:21, 17 March 2009 edit undo Ckatz (talk \| contribs) Administrators 82,954 edits Again, this is very clear; we have already defined who the prefs. work for. Keep in mind that there is a great chunk of text above this that is still heavily skewed w/opinions. Next edit →
Line 28: *<nowiki>[[November 5]], [[1989]]</nowiki> The square brackets instruct the MediaWiki software to format the item according to ~~the~~a user's [[m:Help:Date formatting and linking\|date preferences]] ~~for registered users who have chosen a setting and are logged in~~. The following table shows how the autoformatting mechanism behaves. The preference settings that a registered user can choose are displayed in the second row. The year and the day-month combination are wikilinked separately, except for dates in the [[ISO 8601]] format. Full date formats not found in the first column are not autoformatted when wikilinked, and are likely to produce a redlink; for instance,

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