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* '''Proper nouns with dates''': A number of proper nouns containing date fragments (such as '[[:March 14 Alliance]]', '[[:6th of October City]]', '[[:June 1, 1974]]', '[[:2000 AD]]') have been specifically protected from conversion or delinking. Only the displayed part of piped links are acted upon, whilst the underlying pipe will not be changed. For the purposes of this script, [[:September 11]] or [[:September 11 attacks]] ''is'' treated: there are ample redirects in existence for any problems to be mitigated. '''Let me know if there are other proper names which ought to be protected'''.
* '''Dates that are used as adjectives''': Because the script routinely removes the leading "the" for dates, attention should be paid to where the date is used as an adjective, such as "<font color=orange>the</font> 6 June beach landings". The "the" should either be reinserted, or the phrase reconfigured so that the date is no longer adjectival (e.g. "the beach landings on 6 June").
* '''"body dates" functions''': When these two functions are run, the script protects all within <nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki> tags, so that no dates within citations will be changed, '''even if they are incorrect''' (ie mdy in dmy articles and vice versa). As a consequence, there are corrections the full script makes dates such as missing commas (eg Sept 27 2013), extra commas (eg 27 Sept, 2013) or misspelt month names or missing capitalisation (eg 2 mars 2013), which will not happen with these functions. ''For the above reason, the function may be withdrawn in due course.''
* '''Stalling''': If you see characters such as the following in your diffs window, don't panic:
::<code>⍌190⍍</code>
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