User talk:The Stickler

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[edit] Lennon

It shouldn't and they should be changed too.--Crestville 18:58, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

If you are interested in working on Beatles articles, put your name on this: List of Beatles Participants. You will be very welcome! --andreasegde 17:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] date formats

I have notices you changing dates in lots of places to the format you like. How you spend your time working in wikipedia is your choice, however, when a date is part of a citation template there is a specified format and the template only recognises one style. In the Isobelle Carmody page I corrected the dates for the citations so that they do not display as red-links. Where the value "accessdate =" is used in a template, the format must be entered as "yyyy-mm-dd". This is documented in the citation template page WP:CITET. I do prefer the date format of "Month dd, yyyy", and always have written dates that way. If you change dates in the articles I work on, mostly I will not correct your changes back to my preferred style, because it is a trivial thing, and have only done so in this instance because you broke the template. Stellar 12:50, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] British spellings

Please don't change American spellings to British ones. By long consensus, we leave these as the original author of an article put them, in order to avoid conflict. As the poster above says, this applies to dates as well. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (spelling) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Chick Bowen 17:13, 1 January 2008 (UTC)