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Changing date formats edit

Please stop changing the date formats (and the related column headings) in the article List of streetcar systems in the United States. This is not necessary to make the date column sort correctly, and it makes the dates appear in a very uncommon and harder-to-read format. As someone else pointed out on the talk page to that article, you can use use dts template to sort those dates while displaying them in the same format this list has used for many years. As an example, take a look at the table in the article Trans Europ Express; the dates display normally, but also sort correctly, due to use of the dts template (go into edit mode there to see how it was used in that article's table). Major changes to articles that have been on Wikipedia for several years and have had hundreds of contributors should not be made without any discussion, but in this case, your change was also unnecessary. For the same reason, the dates should be restored to day-month-year format, even though that is less common in the U.S., because that's the format that this article has always used, for many years, and also for consistency with several other lists (for other countries) that are part of a large group of lists described at List of town tramway systems, covering all countries of the world. SJ Morg (talk) 13:51, 27 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

For context, the relevant Wikipedia policy here is WP:DATERET – basically, an editor shouldn't unilaterally change long-standing date formats at an article, unless there is shown to be strong consensus for such a change at the Talk page. --IJBall (talk) 16:45, 27 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

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