Category talk:CS1 errors: dates/Archive 1

1997-09
IIRC this is a perfectly valid RFC 3339 (ISO 8601) month used on NetRexx; as it happens the Date and Time Formats note published 1997-09 by the W3C also confirms this theory. It's certainly not 1700-02-29, 1800-02-29, or 1900-02-29. The latter could be a "valid" ISO OOXML Excel date, but I digress... –Be..anyone (talk) 21:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)


 * , nor the English Wikipedia, support ISO 8601 dates. Year initial dates in the form YYY-MM-DD are allowed by WP:DATESNO but the ISO 8601 YYYY-MM dates are not.  There is quite a bit of discussion about this at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers.


 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 21:40, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I added my € 0,02 somewhere on this confusing talk page. Any guideline trying to overrule the IETF, ISO, and W3C by a rough consensus of about ten editors has a serious notability issue. Bot warnings forcing editors to invent YYYY-MM-DD timestamps out of thin air, or drop a known month in YYYY-MM, are just wrong. –Be..anyone (talk) 14:43, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect parameter used
I have fixed a significant number of articles in this category for cricketers having CrickrtArchive would be good if someone could fix these to CrickrtArchive automatically rather than manually. Looks like the same thing has been copied and pasted to many articles. Keith D (talk) 16:03, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
 * This page has very few watchers. Most discussion happens at Help_talk:Citation_Style_1. For this particular message, I recommend visiting User_talk:GoingBatty. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:27, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks I have posed there. Keith D (talk) 20:19, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

correct format for very old references (CE/BCE)?
How do you cite 78 CE, for example? For example, see Giresun. See the ref by Pliny the Elder.

(I also mention this in discussion here.) - Paul2520 (talk) 20:08, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * In that case, use orig-year. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:18, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Fixing them
I am trying to fix these (39k) citations. Currently working (mainly) on a whole bunch of DNZB citations which use an accessdate of December 2011, though the articles were created later. I am giving these today's date, on the reasonable assumption that DNZB pages are still there.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:11, 23 April 2017 (UTC).

Request to not categories pages in Wikipedia space
Could this error be removed from pages in the Wikipedia space. I don't think it's appropriate to "fix" many of those pages (e.g. anything in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion discussions) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:47, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * This venue is probably not the correct venue. Perhaps closing this discussion and restarting at Help talk:Citation Style 1 would be better because: a paltry 16 watchers here vs 263 watchers watchers there.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 19:57, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you - moved to Help talk:Citation Style 1.
 * If this isn't an appropriate venue for discussions, should this page redirect to Help talk:Citation Style 1? Or have a banner at the top of this page encouraging people to go to Help talk:Citation Style 1?  Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:22, 26 November 2017 (UTC)