User talk:Stevocarty

Hello, Stevocarty, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Happy editing! semper fictilis 21:39, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

March 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Ryan Giggs, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Mattythewhite (talk) 01:00, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Ryan Giggs
Hi, year or season ranges than span from one century into another ought to have the latter year written in full, as per WP:DATERANGE. It is to dispel any ambiguity as to what the year is. You can see an example of how 1999–2000 is commonly used is at Template:1999–2000 in English football. Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 23:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Stevo, I noticed your comment on Matty's talk page. I think you're getting centuries and millennia mixed up; 1999 and 2000 are in the same millennium but different centuries, while 2000 and 2001 are in the same century but different millennia. To be honest, I don't get it either. As for the year formats in the Ryan Giggs article, the reason we write 1999-2000 is because they start with different numbers. If we wrote 1999-00, some people might think we meant 1999-1900 - it would be pretty illogical to assume that, but it makes sense to be sure. – PeeJay 11:47, 29 March 2014 (UTC)