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A fact from Matt Campbell (American football coach) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 December 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
@Mackensen: Why are we using British/Commonwealth style DMY dates for newspaper article publication dates in the footnotes of this article? Per MOS, I think we should be consistently using American style MDY dates throughout an article about an American subject written in American English. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:44, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It's the default in Prove-It and I went for internal consistency out of laziness. Mackensen(talk) 20:07, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
As an American partially educated in England and a former law review editor, I'm a bit of stickler for honoring the appropriate MDY and DMY date formats within their natural national varieties of English. Looks odd to have an article written in American English about an intrinsically American subject use British/Commonwealth style dates. It's a bit like using American spelling or dates in an article about an English association football coach. For an American editor, it appears you edit a lot of British subjects, so I'm sure you know what I mean, Mac. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:17, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I don't disagree with any of this; as I said, I just accepted the default from the tool I was using at the time and didn't give it as much thought as I should have. I've already corrected it. Mackensen(talk) 20:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:26, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
The redirect Coach Campbell has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 August 8 § Coach Campbell until a consensus is reached. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)