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Reference errors on 29 August

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Reference errors on 31 August

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Reference errors on 3 September

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Date ranges

Saw your edits to Bob McCann. Please be advised that an eight digit span of years in infoboxes is MOS standard (WP:DATERANGE) and consensus for basketball infoboxes. In the case of single seasons represented in a list of teams, the date range in this context is being used to replace the phrase "from 1988 to 1989," not expressing a single season. There has been significant discussion if this over years and I would ask that you respect this and adjust your scripts accordingly. Rikster2 (talk) 12:38, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Really? I'm more concerned about our readers than editorial history. It's so difficult to read the spelled-out version, and it's so impractical in confined space. That's why it's difficult to understand why you'd hold to your artillery. Tony (talk) 13:25, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Go read the MOS page and recent discussions. The trend is to go more towards 8-digit year in infoboxes and tables, not less. Part of that is that 6 digit seems to be a format used in some English speaking countries as "year, month." Another part is just that there is not universal agreement that 6-digit is necessarily easier to read than 8-digit. Not by a long shot. This is far from just my preference Rikster2 (talk) 13:30, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Well, this has been a voyage of discovery. It seems the preference for a 2-digit endpoint, which has been the norm for many years, was changed in an RFC barely two months ago. I was completely unaware of that RFC. And to complicate matters, there is a specific exemption for infoboxes and sports seasons:

Firstly, when space is at a premium, such as in tables or infoboxes, 2 year date styles may be used. Secondly, applications such as sports seasons, fiscal years, and consecutive years use the two-year date range convention without problems.

However, I appreciate that there may a need to differentiate between sports seasons and year, though it's often not clear which is intended, and they will often coincide. The whole thing's a bit of a minefield, with extensive implications - vast numbers of articles have been changed over the years to use a 2-digit endpoint, as that was the preferred option. I'll just stick to converting hyphens to endashes and let someone else worry about the digits. Colonies Chris (talk) 15:38, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

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Reference errors on 14 September

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Reference errors on 20 September

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Reference errors on 14 September

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Reference errors on 20 September

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Reference errors on 25 September

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University Center Patio listed at Redirects for discussion

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Reference errors on 28 September

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