Skyring wrote: > There's very little debate on which date format should be used for > articles on U.S. or UK subjects, but for articles on (say) France or > Brazil, there is a push to use U.S. date format, despite both of those > nations using International format. There's no such push at all, and it's a bit disingenuous to claim so, as the only people making a "push" to convert date formats from one to another are those in favor of a day-month-year universal standard. The long-respected status quo is that if an article is on a subject that isn't strongly tied to a particular dialect of English, then it uses whatever the original author used, including for spellings, date formats, etc. Changing from one to another is discouraged, as it's a noise edit, and rather impolite to change one correct English dialect to another, especially as there are much more important things to work on.
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