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+ | == Message from [[User:Bart|Bart]] on 2023-09-21 at 1121h == | ||
You have changed a lot of signatures in Talk pages (formatting of date). <br> | You have changed a lot of signatures in Talk pages (formatting of date). <br> | ||
− | That makes no sense to me, since that dat is added automatically with the signature [[User:Bart|Bart]] ([[User talk:Bart|talk]]) 19:21, 21 September 2023 (CEST) | + | That makes no sense to me, since that dat<nowiki>[sic]</nowiki> is added automatically with the signature —[[User:Bart|Bart]] ([[User talk:Bart|talk]]) 19:21, {{#formatdate:21 September 2023|dmy}} (CEST) |
+ | :Yeah, it's just a force of habit after almost 20 years of editing on Wikipedia and other MediaWiki-powered sites. The <code><nowiki>{{#formatdate:…}}</nowiki></code> magic word automatically reads the user's date style from their site preferences and displays it accordingly, which the auto-signature feature doesn't do. I took care to set the default format to the way it had been before, for users who aren't logged in or haven't set a style in their preferences, so I don't think anything was materially changed or lost, only new functionality added. I, of course, would never edit a page simply to do that, but when I happen to be editing one for other reasons and happen upon a date in the text I tend to wrap it in the magic word along the way; I believe the page you're speaking of I was attempting to clear the linter error regarding the use of deprecated syntax in the <code><nowiki><syntaxhighlight></nowiki></code> tags and it was exceptionally untidy to start with, with inconsistent indentation and out-of-sequence responses, so I just did my best. Was there something you wanted done differently, or were you merely curious as to my motivations? —[[User:RogueScholar|RogueScholar]] ([[User talk:RogueScholar|talk]]) 17:20, {{#formatdate:2023-09-27|mdy}} (PDT) |
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Feel free to drop me a line here if you need me.
Message from Bart on 2023-09-21 at 1121h
You have changed a lot of signatures in Talk pages (formatting of date).
That makes no sense to me, since that dat[sic] is added automatically with the signature —Bart (talk) 19:21, 21 September 2023 (CEST)
- Yeah, it's just a force of habit after almost 20 years of editing on Wikipedia and other MediaWiki-powered sites. The
{{#formatdate:…}}
magic word automatically reads the user's date style from their site preferences and displays it accordingly, which the auto-signature feature doesn't do. I took care to set the default format to the way it had been before, for users who aren't logged in or haven't set a style in their preferences, so I don't think anything was materially changed or lost, only new functionality added. I, of course, would never edit a page simply to do that, but when I happen to be editing one for other reasons and happen upon a date in the text I tend to wrap it in the magic word along the way; I believe the page you're speaking of I was attempting to clear the linter error regarding the use of deprecated syntax in the<syntaxhighlight>
tags and it was exceptionally untidy to start with, with inconsistent indentation and out-of-sequence responses, so I just did my best. Was there something you wanted done differently, or were you merely curious as to my motivations? —RogueScholar (talk) 17:20, September 27, 2023 (PDT)