Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll/Autoformatting responses: Difference between revisions

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#'''Support''' No need for any bot runs, but as said above let this develop naturally. The option is important as a fly-by editor one does not want to worry about formatting dates the ''right'' way (Is this an American or English article?) Autoformat will do nicely[[User:Agathoclea|Agathoclea]] ([[User talk:Agathoclea|talk]]) 14:38, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

#'''Support''' - Autoformatting certainly has potential, I would like to see more options - such as users logged out being able to set some kind of preference, to further take advantage of Wikipedia's electronic nature. It is good that linking is no longer required for autoformatting, and the potential is still open to allow bots to do most of the labour, though it could just develop slowly over time through human editing. I do believe consistency across article would be helpful, like with other encyclopaedias, and while it perhaps ought to be trivial this clearly matters to more than a few people. [[User:Camaron|Camaron | Chris]] <small>[[User talk:Camaron|(talk)]]</small> 14:40, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

#'''Strong Support''' Wikipedia is not a [[WP:PAPER]] encyclopaedia, and editors who aren't bothered or don't know how to format dates can leave it to editors who can. Symanticising (if that's a word) articles is only a good thing.

=====I oppose the general concept of autoformatting=====