Template talk:Date table sorting
Expand the features
This template has no error checking for missing params, like day or month, and it should, since date can sort without them. It broke our Help:Sorting#Dates section, too! To convert existing tables in the DD-MM-YYYY format to something pretty, and to do it easily, it needs to be able to take the standard DD-MM-YYYY or DD-MM-YY format. In those cases, there would be no need to error check. Maybe it could just check parameter {{{1}}}, perhaps, for dashes and then directly print the full string hidden, then wikilinked, and Mediawiki will do the rest. Let me know if that part doesn't make sense. Sorry I can't figure out how to do that myself.—Wikibarista 17:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Being used outside of sorted tables
The acronym is great, but unfortunately, it's being used incorrectly already for people to just put in dates anywhere in an article. We should rename it to "sortdate" to avoid misuse, because the misuse will cause pages to be larger when they're converted to HTML. —Wikibarista 18:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)