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Access and archive dates

Please see WP:DATEUNIFY and note what is said about the YYYY-MM-DD format for access and archive dates. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:09, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Most of these edits are contrary to agreed Wikipedia policies, as per WP:DATEUNIFY. Please (a) stop (b) undo them immediately. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:28, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That's ridiculous neither Wikipedia's readers nor editors are going to know these standards to a degree over 10% (only "spider experts" will); thus, it is best to go from two possible meanings to one. For American articles: ####-##-## or ##-##-#### probably means month then day (MM-DD), and for non-American articles: it probably means DD-MM. Parameters access-date and sometimes archive-date can be very important for the citation especially if it has no date; ambiguity should be avoided there. —User 0 0 0 name 08:35, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You may think it is ridiculous, but this is agreed policy for the whole of Wikipedia; it's nothing to do with spiders or any other kind of topic. If you want to change this, start a discussion (but we have had many already and always agreed on this policy). There are styles I don't personally like, but I have to go along with the consensus, and so do you.

##-##-#### is forbidden precisely because it is ambiguous. YYYY-MM-DD has one agreed meaning here.

I don't want to be difficult about this, but you do need to undo all the edits you made which are against WP:DATEUNIFY. Editors who continue to edit against agreed policies can end up being banned (a fact, not a threat – I don't have the power to ban anyone). Peter coxhead (talk) 09:28, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will undo them, but is there some way I can be more precise in my undoing, such getting it to not undo certain lines and maybe even certain diff parts of those lines? —User 0 0 0 name 18:07, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not without some programming, as far as I know. I can see that it's annoying if you correctly fixed inconsistent dmy or md,y dates as well as incorrectly changing consistent access/archive dates. Ideally you would undo the edits and then use a tool that respected the different policies applying to the different kinds of dates to fix the article again. Most important is to get it right in future. There's a lot to be said for working slowly until you have more experience, and see what feedback you get. It takes a while to get used to the Manual of Style and all its subpages, as I know from experience. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:23, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You're doing it again

I can't overstate the seriousness of the fact that you have resumed doing what you've been clearly told you must not do. And in addition to screwing up the access/archive dates, you're even changing dates in direct quotes. STOP these automated changes and undo them NOW.

I know you're trying to help, but automated changes are something only very experienced editors should attempt, and that goes double for modifying scripts for such changes. Pinging Peter coxhead, Ohconfucius. E Eng 11:38, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As EEng says, you have been told, and you really must stop making incorrect changes; review your edits before saving them. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:44, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Blade of the Northern Lights (just my favorite random admin who comes to mind) since time is passing with no response, do you have a magic button that can mass-undo all this user's edits from the past few days? Once other users unknowingly edit on top of them, it will become far more difficult to untangle this. If it were just changes in formats it would be one thing, but even dates in direct quotes have been changed. I'm on a very slow connection for the next week or so, so I can't do it. E Eng 16:21, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
In fact I have just the tool; mass rollback. Taken care of. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 01:04, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! User0, I hope this doesn't discourage your from contributing in other ways. It's usually best to start by simply editing articles the old-fashioned way -- fixing errors, improving the writing, adding missing details and sources, etc. E Eng 01:21, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, wait, The Blade of the Northern Lights, I think you need to use the Super Powerful Complete Shazam! Mass Rollback. You only got the tip of the iceberg (maybe there's some date parameter or something you need to expand). Sorry to bother you again. E Eng 01:36, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That should do it; not sure why it got all whacked out the first time, or why I didn't notice it, but I think I got them all. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 04:14, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blade of the Northern Lights:, @EEng: But doesn't When a citation style does not expect differing date formats, it is permissible to normalize publication dates to the article body text date format, and/or access/archive dates to either, with date consistency being preferred. cover these type of changes ? I'm asking because I use a script that changes these dates in similar fashion. Mlpearc Phone (open channel) 04:26, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

One problem was that this user was changing fully consistent yyyy-mm-dd access/archive dates to other formats, whereas these are allowed to be in this format, regardless of the format used for other dates. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:16, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Forget all that. He was changing direct quotes, FFS. I notice he's edited since this discussion started and yet hasn't bothered to respond here. Though he's stopped now, he kept doing this long after he'd been strongly warned to stop. I'm not sure he understands what he's done wrong. E Eng 21:09, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Date formats and bot-like edits

I reverted one of your edits (Wikidata) but it looks like many more need to be reverted as well. See the 16 May 2016 message from EEng above. What discussion has authorized the mass changing of date formats? Johnuniq (talk) 12:35, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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[Regarding] Will do, although I hope that info is elsewhere on those pages. —User 0 0 0 name 01:52, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your userpage

Please explain the purpose of the "external links" section on your userpage, particularly the "Holocaust Revisionism" section. See generally, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Billy Ego-Sandstein. Newyorkbrad (talk) 18:29, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And please remove any YouTube links that are copyright violations, e.g. the Montel Williams show. Such links are not allowed. If you can't figure out which they are, remove all the YouTube links. Your choice. Doug Weller talk 18:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Purpose of sections "external links" and "Holocaust Revisionism": it is a collection of info, sometimes the sources aren't the best per WP policy so I will not add them anywhere at the (Main) namespace but will keep them on my userpage; is there an issue with that? I'll remove the links. —User 0 0 0 name 21:46, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 Please explain the purpose of the "external links" section on your userpage, particularly the "Holocaust Revisionism" section. See generally, [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Billy Ego-Sandstein]]. [[User:Newyorkbrad|Newyorkbrad]] ([[User talk:Newyorkbrad|talk]]) 18:29, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
-:And please remove any YouTube links that are copyright violations, eg the Montel Williams show. Such links are not allowed. If you can't figure out which they are, remove all the YouTube links. Your choice. [[User:Doug Weller|<span style="color:#070">Doug Weller</span>]] [[User talk:Doug Weller|talk]] 18:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
+:And please remove any YouTube links that are copyright violations, e.g. the Montel Williams show. Such links are not allowed. If you can't figure out which they are, remove all the YouTube links. Your choice. [[User:Doug Weller|<span style="color:#070">Doug Weller</span>]] [[User talk:Doug Weller|talk]] 18:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
+:Purpose of sections "external links" and "Holocaust Revisionism": it is a collection of info, sometimes the sources aren't the best per WP policy so I will not add them anywhere at the (Main) namespace but will keep them on my userpage; is there an issue with that? I'll remove the links. —User '''[[User:User000name|0]][[User_talk:User000name|0]][[Special:Contributions/User000name|0]]''' name 21:46, 31 May 2016 (UTC)