Talk:Steven J. Lopes

Date format
, could you please explain why you have changed all the dates to DMY? You cited MOS in your edit summary and then later cited his links to Anglicanism. However, I don't see that either of those mean that DMY dates should be used. Lopes is American, and therefore American English spelling and American MDY dates (as per MOS:DATETIES) should surely be used? Gaia Octavia AgrippaTalk 02:53, 4 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I thought the original was dmy but it was mdy. It could be argued that all articles in the topic area of the Personal Ordinariates could have a consistent dmy date format. It is also true that the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter serves both the USA and Canada, where dmy date formats are used. Which English variety to use would also come into question. Perhaps we should seek WP:CONSENSUS on the matter. Elizium23 (talk) 04:09, 4 January 2016 (UTC)


 * According to MOS:DATETIES, Canada uses both DMY and MDY dates. As the USA uses MDY, that to me settles which date format should be used on the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter page: it currently does use MDY, eg "However, it was announced on December 7, 2012". However, this is not that page, this is a biography of an American cleric. As per MOS:DATETIES, "Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking country should generally use the date format most commonly used in that nation", and so this page should use MDY. Just because he has links to the Ordinariate that doesn't mean he has a strong link to the UK and its date format. Do you see where I'm coming from? Gaia Octavia AgrippaTalk 15:15, 4 January 2016 (UTC)