Wikipedia:Date formattings

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Aim: to fix up all date references on Wikipedia so they conform to the encyclopedia's manual of style for dates.

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Note that this is a moving target – every day, hundreds (if not thousands) of incorrectly formatted/linked dates come into being. However, we do have tools to help us.

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Wikipedia:Date formattings

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