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The access date (in |access-date=) is checked to ensure that it contains a full date (day, month, and year) and is between 15 January 2001 (the founding date of Wikipedia) and today's date plus one day, because it represents the date that an editor viewed a web-based source to verify a statement on Wikipedia. Because editors may be in time ...
Wikipedia's manual of style for dates and numbers encourages consistency in formats used. As there are two permissible date formats used in running text in Wikipedia, articles will belong to one or other category. Thousands of articles have a mix of dmy and mdy date formats which need to be unified into one format or another.
using a fixed date format (so the user-preferences do not apply), and provide a link as desired apply autoformatting, but add the desired link at the end Whether to link to a year page, a month page, or a day page, depends on factors such as whether a year page would get too large to hold all content about the year; if so, both a link to a ...
The date format chosen in the first major contribution in the early stages of an article (i.e., the first non-stub version) should continue to be used, unless there is reason to change it based on the topic's strong ties to a particular English-speaking country, or consensus on the article's talk page.
National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd. [161] dd.mm.yyyy format is used in some places where it is required by EU regulations, for example for best-before dates on food [162] and on driver's licenses. d/m format is used casually, when the year is obvious from the context, and for date ranges, e.g. 28-31/8 for 28–31 August.
The last modification date stamp (and with DELWATCH 2.0+ also the file deletion date stamp, and since DOS 7.0+ optionally also the last access date stamp and creation date stamp), are stored in the directory entry with the year represented as an unsigned seven bit number (0–127), relative to 1980, and thereby unable to indicate any dates in ...
Users of screen readers do not expect any text between the TOC and the first heading. See WP:TOC: Mid: No TOC has material after it and before the first headline Accessibility Screen readers don't process material that comes between the Table of Contents and first headline. See WP:TOC (dump) High: No <sub> with no correct end Display problem
Hi again! Just wondering why the script updates the date within {{use mdy dates}} and {{use dmy dates}}.I would think it would be more beneficial to indicate that the original decision for the article's date format, not the most recent time someone updated the article.