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buried deep in the edit history, it was pure luck that I spotted it and decided to double-check it. Once again, refrain from such edits. They are detrimental to accuracy of the encyclopedia. It is of course desirable to use an unambiguous date format, but you can only switch to it after you've properly researched what the original date refers to. In contrast, judging from your list of contributions, you didn't bother to spend half a second to check what you were doing. Even short of checking the links as I suggested above, it is a no-brainer to guess that a
European topic is much more likely to use European date formats, whereas you seem to be mindlessly converting everything as if it were in the American style. —
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You changed the title of R.T. Kendall's DPhil thesis to read "died", not "d.". I do not think that this is an appropriate use of house style: the author has chosen to write "d." in the title, so I would leave the title that way. It is a direct quotation. If necessary you could write, "d", but that is
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Knowledge date formats), so in a sense are 'wrong' before my edit. Therefore I think it's better to correct these ambiguous dates
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Thanks for letting me know, I didn't spot the error at the time. I've now corrected the article. The problem was that the date of birth used an abbreviated month (Dec) rather than the full one (December), which I've now corrected too. I'll have a look at catching abbreviated months in my script.
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dates. If you do not know the meaning of an ambiguous date format, do not make wild guesses, but check your facts. It's not that difficult to click on the bloody links to find out when the articles were published, is it?
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