User talk:LeadSongDog/Archives/2018/January

The Bugle: Issue CXLI, January 2018
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Template:Use dates
I saw your post at Template talk:Use dmy dates and I agree and would like to move forward with your proposal.

To review, the problem is that neither "Use dmy dates" nor "Use mdy dates" provides for documenting the alternatives in WP:DATEUNIFY. You stated, "One possible implementation might look something along the lines of ".

As a good solution this problem, your proposed template conflicts with neither "Use dmy dates" nor "Use mdy dates". The only remaining problem I see is to pick names, especially for the yyyy-mm-dd format, for which I suggest "yyyy-mm-dd". At WP:DATEUNIFY there are two accepted abbreviated formats for publication dates, for which I propose "d mmm yyyy" and "mmm d, yyyy". That much would be trivial to implement. Error checking would be a nice addition, but not necessary for the first release. Thoughts? Unscintillating (talk) 15:24, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I've applied this concept at Erin Stewart as an edit comment, and using Template:Use dateformats FYI, Unscintillating (talk) 12:57, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * By all means, please go for it. I had completely forgotten about the idea! LeadSongDog come howl!  17:56, 8 January 2018 (UTC)