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Hi User:Timeshifter. There is no rule which says I must break up my edits, and I prefer to do as much as I can in a single edit to avoid watchlist spam. See MOS:DATEUNIFY: When a citation style does not expect differing date formats, it is permissible to normalize publication dates to the article body text date format, and/or access/archive dates to either, with date consistency being preferred. Therefore, using all mdy dates is preferred. Do you have any other objections to my edit? Per WP:PRESERVE, you should try to fix any issues you see with my edit rather than reverting them entirely. HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 03:58, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
yyyy-mm-dd is mentioned as acceptable in multiple places in MOS:DATEUNIFY. And try using common sense more often. As I said in my edit summary yyyy-mm-dd is converted to the readers preferred end format. See "date format" section here: Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering.
It is acceptable, but consistency with the main article is preferred. In any event, mdy is converted to readers' the article's preferred format, too. HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 04:25, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
I just realized that the preference does not effect the date format in this articles. It does effect the date format in the watchlist. --Timeshifter (talk) 04:51, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
(edit conflict) I miswrote. My apologies. There are two issues at play here:
The use of dates in the {{cite xxx}} templates. These are automatically converted to mdy format because this article is marked as {{use mdy dates}}, regardless of that preference. See (for example) United Kingdom#References, which displays in dmy dates even with the preference set to mdy.
In plain text, which per MOS:DATE is not an acceptable format (see the table where it says No equivalent for general use) Most readers do not use that preference, because it requires creating an account. Most readers see the annoying yyyy-mm-dd format, which is worse than seeing the "wrong" format.
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