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English used in the article. Shortcuts MOS:DATERETMOS:DATERET MOS:DATEVARMOS:DATEVAR If an article has evolved using predominantly one date format, this format...

of Style/Dates and numbers § Retaining existing format (MOS:DATEVARMOS:DATEVAR), on using a consistent date format within an article Wikipedia:Citing...

Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Punctuating a sentence (em or en dashes) MOS:DATEVAR, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers § Retaining existing format...

rankings) Lkolbly (talk) 14:52, 25 December 2018 (UTC) WP:CITEVAR and WP:DATEVAR is the relevant stuff on date and citation differences. On English wiki...

willing to support a guideline identical to that currently found at MOS:DATEVAR, which allows the abbreviation of month names "only when brevity is helpful...

(UTC) it has bought to my attention about violating WP:CITEVAR and WP:DATEVAR for edit1 and edit2. as far as i am concerned both edits converted both...

reverted back and later claimed he was reverting because of WP:CITEVAR and WP:DATEVAR (my reference was in vertical format, and my dates were a different format)...

they are used in citations. For more general date formatting issues, MOS:DATEVAR and MOS:ERA are relevant, and for variant styles more broadly, there is...

should allow both styles, along the lines of STYLEVAR, ENGVAR, CITEVAR and DATEVAR (either strong national ties or first major contributor). These are the...

WP:CITESTYLE and its WP:CITEVAR component are closely related to MOS:ENGVAR, MOS:DATEVAR, and various other *VAR provisions for "status quo enforcement", and efforts...

sought at: WT:Manual of Style#RfC: Specific proposal to clarify DATERET (DATEVAR) WT:Manual of Style/Capital letters#RfC 2: Specific proposal to revise...

shouldn't be "fixed" just for the sake of it. See MOS:DATETIES and MOS:DATEVAR for established guidelines.   — TARDIS builder✉     ★       20:25, 5 June...

on this type of thing are MOS:TIES (MOS:DATETIES) and MOS:ENGVAR (MOS:DATEVAR). Generally, the long-standing consensus has been to defer to the style...

more info and exactly how "first major contributor" is defined, see MOS:DATEVAR and MOS:RETAIN. AddWittyNameHere 18:27, 27 July 2018 (UTC) Then who adds...

expansion in 2022) so I didn't want to change it without a consensus per MOS:DATEVAR. Hog Farm Talk 02:36, 22 January 2025 (UTC) This is a little nitpicky,...

template appears conceived to merge the functionality of a large number of datevar and engvar templates, but it is not complete in function or form, and does...

date-month-year simply out of personal preference is not always warranted per MOS:DATEVAR. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:13, 14 February 2019 (UTC) It was the comma. The...

MOS:TIES/MOS:DATETIES could be argued both ways in this case; so maybe ENGVAR and MOS:DATEVAR, and in general MOS:RETAIN should be followed here. — Marchjuly (talk)...

particular house style that is preferred for all articles. Generally per MOS:DATEVAR and MOS:DATEUNIFY, you should try to stick with whatever style was used...

December 2019 (UTC) @WikiWarrior9919: No, definitely not. It's a simple MOS:DATEVAR dispute. It's gone: I expanded an article and used Dates-1 User A changes...

to just add {{use mdy/dmy dates|cs1-dates=...}}, if the dmy or mdy MOS:DATEVAR of the article is clearly determinable (or is now being set). Even so,...

now, I'm working on reverting the changes to recent year articles. MOS:DATEVAR is clear that date styles shouldn't be changed without clear consensus...

of the idea and the community never accepts them. Even MOS:RETAIN, MOS:DATEVAR, etc. don't work this way; they're "if all else fails" fall-back positions...

doesn't apply. Anomie⚔ 21:19, 16 June 2024 (UTC) True. That said, MOS:DATEVAR simply says unless there is reason to change it based on strong national...

in the typhoon topic area with editors not understanding how ENGVAR and DATEVAR work. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 17:46, 5 October 2025 (UTC)...

considering MOS:VAR and MOS:CULTIVAR exists along with items like MOS:DATEVAR I don't think we lose much by redirecting someone making a typo to our...

I've come to the right place. This proposal concerns WP:CITESTYLE and WP:DATEVAR, which I understand to be guidelines rather than actual policies. Please...

"total rows" were provided). No opinion on the proposed TBAN of ENGVAR / DATEVAR changes in mainspace, but I think a TBAN from even discussing ENGVAR is...

isaacl (talk) 18:04, 23 July 2025 (UTC) I'd agree that WP:ENGVAR, WP:DATEVAR, and WP:MOSTIES should have been the guide for capitalisation. I'm not...

them throughout the article; I was going to do this myself based on WP:DATEVAR, but looking at the early edits it isn't clear what would be classed as...

177 INFOBOXUNKNOWN 177 DATE 177 DATEFORMAT 177 DATENO 177 DATESNO 177 DATEVAR 177 ONWHITE 177 ORDINALDATES 177 WEASELWORD 177 NONENGITALIC 177 SECTIONHEAD...

fashion. Naming is not an issue. The most recent disruption is around DATEVAR, curiously enough. I'm not sure about the newness of all the editors, but...

(UTC) @Kusma: Yes we have several deliberate inconsistencies (ENGVAR, DATEVAR, ERA and SERIAL come to mind) and yes those do make English Wikipedia stronger...

January 2025 (UTC) Task: Log when the template indicating an article's WP:DATEVAR (i.e. {{Use dmy dates}} and {{Use mdy dates}}) or WP:ENGVAR (e.g. {{Use...

changing from one to another acceptable style without good reason, and MOS:DATEVAR is good precedent too for being consistent within any one specific article...

2025 (UTC) Hello, @1isall, and welcome to the Teahouse. Please see WP:DATEVAR. In short, Wikipedia does not mandate any particular format, but it should...

the disallowed formats at MOS:BADDATE. You might also want to read MOS:DATEVAR. LightNightLights (talk • contribs) 15:32, 29 April 2024 (UTC) Hello! I...

it comes to Wikipedia because of things like WP:ENGVAR, WP:CITEVAR, WP:DATEVAR, etc. For example, Wikipedia doesn't have one house-style of English, and...

appearing in citations. Probably the safest bet here would be to stick to MOS:DATEVAR and WP:CITEVAR and defer to the date format used by article's creator or...

WP:CITE, WP:CITESTYLE, WP:ELMINOFFICIAL, WP:ABOUTSELF, WP:DUE, WP:ENGVAR, WP:DATEVAR, WP:NOTPROMO, WP:CFORK. IS, if not an LLM prompt? kthanksbi Alexandermcnabb...

change them to keep similarity between articles, but according to MOS:DATEVAR and MOS:RETAIN, I cannot. I know I should not be irritated in this situation...

"—That's true when starting a new article on a generic topic, but as MOS:DATEVAR makes clear, when editing an existing article the style already in use...

if the topic is global, whichever was used by the first editor. See MOS:DATEVAR. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:38, 30 December...

them throughout the article; I was going to do this myself based on WP:DATEVAR, but looking at the early edits it isn't clear what would be classed as...

opened and closed, I had been keeping an eye on this user and seen some DATEVAR changes which I had cleaned up. Didn't think to spotcheck any of their...

expansion in 2022) so I didn't want to change it without a consensus per MOS:DATEVAR. Hog Farm Talk 02:36, 22 January 2025 (UTC) This is a little nitpicky,...