Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll/Autoformatting responses: Difference between revisions
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#Oppose. The [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582#c65 bugzilla analysis] is generally against it. Most users can understand both major formats (DMY and MDY). I see no point if it's not going to be retro-fitted, but that's likely to be a nightmare - and automating it would be very risky, as the [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582#c65 bugzilla analysis] identifies types of cases where automated retro-fitting would be wrong. Finally if making it work requires a template or any other extra mark-up typing, I'm totally against it - WP is so prone to [[WP:CREEP]] that it would probably become a MOS requirement in a few years, and I know no mechanism by which we could legislate now that MOS should never require it. -[[User:Philcha|Philcha]] ([[User talk:Philcha|talk]]) 23:45, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
#Oppose There is no "problem" to solve. As it has been noted, [[WP:ENGVAR]] works well for English variants, so why not dates? [[User:Dabomb87|Dabomb87]] ([[User talk:Dabomb87|talk]]) 23:47, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
#Oppose. -- [[User talk:Donald Albury|Donald Albury]] 23:53, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
=====I am neutral on the general concept of autoformatting=====
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