Category talk:CS1 errors: dates/Archive 1

1997-09

IIRC this is a perfectly valid RFC 3339 (ISO 8601) month used on NetRexx; as it happens the Date and Time Formats note published 1997-09 by the W3C also confirms this theory. It's certainly not 1700-02-29, 1800-02-29, or 1900-02-29. The latter could be a "valid" ISO OOXML Excel date, but I digress... –Be..anyone (talk) 21:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Citation Style 1, nor the English Wikipedia, support ISO 8601 dates. Year initial dates in the form YYY-MM-DD are allowed by WP:DATESNO but the ISO 8601 YYYY-MM dates are not. There is quite a bit of discussion about this at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Is YYYY-MM an acceptable date format? Part 2.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:40, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I added my € 0,02 somewhere on this confusing talk page. Any guideline trying to overrule the IETF, ISO, and W3C by a rough consensus of about ten editors has a serious notability issue. Bot warnings forcing editors to invent YYYY-MM-DD timestamps out of thin air, or drop a known month in YYYY-MM, are just wrong. –Be..anyone (talk) 14:43, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Incorrect parameter used

I have fixed a significant number of articles in this category for cricketers having |date=CrickrtArchive would be good if someone could fix these to |publisher=CrickrtArchive automatically rather than manually. Looks like the same thing has been copied and pasted to many articles. Keith D (talk) 16:03, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

This page has very few watchers. Most discussion happens at Help_talk:Citation_Style_1. For this particular message, I recommend visiting User_talk:GoingBatty#Proposed_date_fixes_for_BattyBot_.28Task_25.29. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:27, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks I have posed there. Keith D (talk) 20:19, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

correct format for very old references (CE/BCE)?

How do you cite 78 CE, for example? For example, see Giresun#References. See the ref by Pliny the Elder.

(I also mention this in discussion here.) - Paul2520 (talk) 20:08, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

In that case, use |orig-year=. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:18, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Fixing them

I am trying to fix these (39k) citations. Currently working (mainly) on a whole bunch of DNZB citations which use an accessdate of December 2011, though the articles were created later. I am giving these today's date, on the reasonable assumption that DNZB pages are still there.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:11, 23 April 2017 (UTC).

Request to not categories pages in Wikipedia space

Could this error be removed from pages in the Wikipedia space. I don't think it's appropriate to "fix" many of those pages (e.g. anything in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion discussions) Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:47, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

This venue is probably not the correct venue. Perhaps closing this discussion and restarting at Help talk:Citation Style 1 would be better because: a paltry 16 watchers here vs 263 watchers watchers there.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:57, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: Thank you - moved to Help talk:Citation Style 1#Request to change CS1 errors: dates.

If this isn't an appropriate venue for discussions, should this page redirect to Help talk:Citation Style 1? Or have a banner at the top of this page encouraging people to go to Help talk:Citation Style 1? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:22, 26 November 2017 (UTC)