Mpyne

December 2009

Please don't change the format of dates without good reason, as you did to USS Maryland (SSBN-738). Most British people and many people internationally write dates in day-month-year order, e.g., 12 December 1904. Most Americans use month-day-year order, e.g., December 12, 1904. If the article is about an American topic, use month-day-year. If it is a British or European topic, use day-month-year. If neither, leave it as originally written. Many Americans or British people take offence if an article about their country, written in their local version of English, is changed around to a version they don't use. So please do not do that.

If you have any questions about this, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Enjoy your time on Wikipedia. Thank you. Do not mess with dates without discussing them first. -MBK₀₀₄ 07:07, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

We use the British format for US military articles here and that will not change no matter what you want to try. -MBK₀₀₄ 07:08, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Here is the policy: Wikipedia:MOSDATE#Strong_national_ties_to_a_topic Also, "going crazy" is not adviseable and will only get you reverted, we work off of consensus, based upon discussion. -MBK₀₀₄ 07:09, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject Ships

WikiProject Ships Hello Mpyne! I noticed your contributions to a ship article, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Ships, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of ships of all kinds. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~

My apologies for the rapid-fire messages, it was not intended to appear as they do. The use of the template is not generally used even though it exists. Dates are not supposed to be linked on wikipedia anymore, and a system of automated bots are currently going through every article and removing such links. The dates are supposed to be hard-coded without any concessions such as what the dateformat template provides. I would also like to encourage you to join the WikiProject to which I have left an invitation to below, you seem to be geniunely interested in improving our coverage of submarines, which is a subject area that is not heavily covered as in-depth as other maritime warfare aspects such as battleships. -MBK₀₀₄ 23:00, 30 December 2009 (UTC)