User talk:72.75.84.93

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[edit] wikifying dates

It's a difficulty with the design of the wiki formatting for partial dates. There is no perfect solution. If you leave the dates unwikified, of course you don't get the date formatting you want. If you wikify them, some users wil get this kind of odd result. The only perfect solution is to spell out both dates in full

23 August 1918-20 September 1918

but some people consider this a bit verbose and unnatural.

Another option is not to link the year - then the month/day formatting changes according to user preferences but the year stays at the end - again, rather unsatisfactory. Colonies Chris 23:47, 2 January 2007 (UTC)