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Citation error due to date format

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Femke (talkcontribs)
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

The English Wikipedia has decided to reject this class of ISO standards-compliant dates. I find it annoying, too.

Years ago, I heard editors justify this rule because of the fear was that future editors would not be able to tell whether 2001-02 meant two years (2001–2002) or a year and month (February 2001). However, there is no possibility of confusion any source after 2012, and only a tiny fraction of dates from 2000–2011 would be potentially confusing and not banned by the English Wikipedia's MOS.

In the last discussion I had on this, we couldn't even agree about whether the MOS rule applies to what's typed in the wikitext vs what's shown to readers. (For example: So long as the reader sees July 2021, does it matter if I typed |iso-date=2021-07 in wikitext?)

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