User talk:Middayexpress/Archive 20

Your edits
I'm getting a little bit more concerned as I look at some of your non-Somali-related edits. Why are you changing birth and death date formats from "DD MMM YYYY" to "MMM DD, YYYY" when the subjects are Greek people? According to DATE, you should be leaving these as is, unless the Greeks specifically always format dates as MMM DD, YYYY the same way American do. I'm not aware that they do. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:06, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That link above is a guideline, not a policy. And in case you hadn't notice, it clearly states that:
 * In general, the following formats are acceptable:
 * Month before day: February 14 and February 14, 1990 (comma required)
 * Day before month: 14 February and 14 February 1990 (no comma)
 * Date formatting in an article is governed by the following three guidelines.
 * As indicated on your talk page, I'd be more concerned about your misuse of administrative tools in a dispute you yourself are presently involved in. Middayexpress (talk) 04:23, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I know it's a guideline, but you need to go on and read the three guidelines that follow the section you quote. You need a good reason to depart from these. You've been breaching WP:DATERET, as far as I can tell, with edits like this. You haven't explained why they should be changed from one to the other. If you don't understand why this is a problem, then maybe you shouldn't play around with date formats in articles. (And preventing you from side-stepping formal WP processes does not make me "involved" in a content dispute in the way you'd like to believe.) Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:25, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Not that it even matters, but the 12 February 1809-style format is often used for British and Commonwealth peoples (that doesn't include Greeks), not so much by the rest of the world. This is beside the point though since I don't need to explain a simple formatting change that the guideline you yourself produced indicates is one of the two acceptable dating formats ("In general, the following formats are acceptable"). That's attempting to make a meal out of nothing, or, in common parlance, to "score points". As the other principal party involved in the dispute, your misuse of administrative tools to get the categories as you personally wanted them to be and argued for is also the very definition of a conflict of interest. There's no changing that. Middayexpress (talk) 05:06, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, most of the world (save the U.S. and its former colonies) uses DD MMM YYYY from my experience. Anyway, since you haven't provided a justification for violating WP:DATERET, you can consider this a formal warning not to do so in the future. Thanks, Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:12, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, I have (but, of course, it's much easier to pretend I have not). Nor did I even particularly need to since that same guideline states point blank that it is one of the two acceptable dating methods. You should consider yourself lucky that I am an understanding editor and have chosen to give you this one time the benefit of the (huge) doubt rather than report this quite blatant, self-serving misuse of administrative tools -- misuse which no amount of petty allusions to perfectly legit formatting changes will distract attention away from. Take care, Middayexpress (talk) 05:31, 12 October 2010 (UTC)