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Autoformated Dates
In the Wikipedia Manual of Style it says here that 2001 January 15 will autoformat to match the reader's date preferences (if the reader is a user.) It does not seem to autoformat at all.

Here it is without the  tag: 2001 January 15.

Is this information in the manual of style obsolete, or is there a problem in the way the manual describes how one should type 2001 January 15 for the autoformatting to work?

Thanks, Infoporfin (talk) 22:24, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Infoporfin. You have to separate the date and month from the year. So, January 23 2008 (note no comma!) and 23 January 2008 and 2008 January 23 will all format to January 23 2008 and 23 January 2008 and 2008 January 23 all of which should look the same to you based on what you have set in your preferences for date formatting. Hope that clears it up. Cheers!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Suggest Article for Administrator Review
Is there a template to put in an article to ask admins to look at it? Infoporfin (talk) 23:49, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * This depends on what you want to be done with the article. If you think it needs administrator attention, you could make a post over at the Administrators' noticeboard. However, admins have little to do with actual article structure. If you're looking for a review of the article, you may want to take a look into Peer review. If you have any other questions, feel free to leave a message here or on my talk page. Best regards! -- omtay 38  23:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I really don't think there is all that much to "sort out" here (that is just my personal opinion though). Google results have nothing at all to do with wikipedia names and changes on wikipedia can only be made to improve wikipedia as an entity, not with a regard to outside websites. If you feel the move was problematic, I would suggest you bring it up on the article's talk page. If you still feel that this needs administrator attention, then take my advice above and post over at the Administrators' noticeboard. Hope this helps! -- omtay 38  00:37, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Demonyms
Hi there. I see you added the Demonym field to the Template:Infobox U.S. state at the top. This is a fine place to put it, but it was already in the infobox, below "Largest Metro Area". I could care less where it appears, but it should only appear once. Also, since it's a relatively new field, it should probably be optional with "if" statements. Some states, like Maryland, don't have the field filled out, so it appears as in the info box. Good wikiing.--Patrick Ѻ 15:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)