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Date format

Please don't change the format of dates. Most British people and many people internationally write dates in day-month-year order, e.g., 12 December 1904. Most Americans use month-day-year order, e.g., December 12, 1904. If the article is about an American topic, use month-day-year. If it is a British topic, use day-month-year. If neither, leave it as originally written. Many Americans or British people take offence if an article about their country, written in their local version of English, is changed around to a version they don't use. So please do not do that.

Dates are usually enclosed in two square brackets, as in ] or ]. This means that you can set your preferences (if you look around your screen you'll see the word preferences; click on it and follow the instructions) to ensure that you see all dates in the format you want, whether date-month-year, month-date-year or yyyy-mm-dd. The general rules on how Misplaced Pages articles are written can be seen in the Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style. Rules specific to dates and numbers can be seen in the Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dates and numbers).

If you have any questions about this, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Enjoy your time on the web's fastest growing encyclopædia (or encyclopedia, if you write it that way!). Thank you. GregorB 19:04, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Date linking

Please don't remove the linking of full dates, as you did on Putaruru. Removing the links from individual years which don't have a day and month associated with them is fine, but the day-month-year should remain linked so people will view the date according to their preferences.-gadfium 19:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: your move of the David Oliver article

Hello.

The general consenus format for articles on ice hockey players, whose names are ambiguous, is "David Oliver (ice hockey)" - not "David Oliver (ice hockey player)". Please contact an admin to revert your move.

Thank you. LarRan (talk) 13:14, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

C&P move

Hi, it appears that you recently tried to give James Peters (disambiguation) a different title by copying its content and pasting it into James Peters. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes.

If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself, please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other articles that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Misplaced Pages:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Tim Song (talk) 07:01, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Jim Peters (hockey)

Hello GirasoleDE, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I contested the speedy deletion of Jim Peters (hockey) - a page you tagged - because: Not a recently created redirect - consider WP:RfD. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. Tim Song (talk) 07:06, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Denialism

An article that you have been involved in editing, Denialism, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Denialism (2nd nomination). Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Unomi (talk) 06:14, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Herman te Riele

Hi. I have deleted this as requested: if you now move Herman J.J. te Riele to that title, can I leave you to fix the double redirects that will arise? You can find them by going to the redirect which will be left at the "JJ" title and clicking "What links here". Regards, JohnCD (talk) 12:56, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Arthur Sarkissian (artist)

Girasole:

I spent a lot of time in August working to improve the Arthur Sarkissian (artist) article, making sure it had a satisfactory structure, good references, appropriate categories, etc. OK, it's changed a bit since then, but not fundamentally. So I'm astonished and somewhat affronted when you dismissed the article as "spam" and proposed its speedy deletion.

Your tag says it "would require a fundamental rewrite in order to become encyclopedic". Please elaborate. I'm happy to undertake the work, but I remain mystified why a perfectly good article about an established artist should remain perfectly acceptable for the four months since my rewrite and then suddenly, out of the blue, be speedily deleted. There are plenty of articles about artists in Misplaced Pages which have far less in the way of references, less structure, and less underlying research.

I have removed the tag in accordance with the instruction within it, which says if I "intend to fix it, please remove this notice". I await your explanation with eager anticipation.

Assuming your good faith, -- Hebrides (talk) 20:31, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Criticism of the Kyoto Protocol

Thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia! In case you are not already aware, an article to which you have recently contributed, Criticism of the Kyoto Protocol, is on article probation. A detailed description of the terms of article probation may be found at Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation. Also note that the terms of some article probations extend to related articles and their associated talk pages.

The above is a templated message. Please accept it as a routine friendly notice, not as a claim that there is any problem with your edits. Thank you. --TS 13:42, 17 January 2010 (UTC)