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

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# '''Oppose''' We don't autoformat issues such as American/British usage, so why do this issue? 11 April 2009 and April 11, 2009 are both unambiguous, and as long as an article is ''internally'' consistant, there is no need for all of Wikipedia to be so. It would be exactly like autoformatting British users to read "colour" where American users type "color". It seems rather pointless. If the software could be modified to recognize and autoformat dates ''without'' any action from users (such as adding wikilinks or template headers or magic words or ANYTHING) that MAY be an OK idea. But the notion that editors should have to add square brackets or even worse, an entire template, to every date just so that we can pick whether we want the month name first or second seems beyond pointless. --[[User:Jayron32|Jayron32]].[[User talk:Jayron32|<small>talk</small>]].[[Special:Contributions/Jayron32|<small>contribs</small>]] 14:54, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

# '''Oppose''' per above arguments. [[User:NSR77|<font color="#000000">'''NSR'''</font><font color="#26466D ">'''77'''</font>]] ^{[[User_talk:NSR77|<font color="#000000">T</font>]]} 15:52, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

# '''Oppose''' What need is there for such a feature? This is not a rhetorical question; the answer is none. Unnecessary and trivial &ndash; basically per above. [[User:Andre666|Andre666]] ([[User talk:Andre666|talk]]) 17:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

=====I am neutral on the general concept of autoformatting=====