https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582





--- Comment #241 from Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  2008-11-26 22:14:36 
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(In reply to comment #238)
> I strongly support the removal of the request. Autoformatting dates (or
> numbers, currency amounts, percentages, zip codes and phone numbers if there
> are some...) according to user preferences at the server level is a very bad
> idea.
> 

I have a lot of sympathy for this point of view. However, we already have date
autoformatting. It can be argued that that was a mistake. The particular
implementation was certainly a mistake (IMO). So the question now is how to
make it suck less, especially given the articles that already use it.


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