Talk:Donald Gramm

Dates

The first bullet of WP:DATERET is quite clear you can keep the article as it evolved "unless there are reasons for changing it based on strong national ties to the topic". Then in WP:STRONGNAT the first item states that "Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking country should generally use the more common date format for that nation". This article is about an American and the bulk of his career took place in the US. You will be hard pressed to find another editor who respects WP:ENGVAR more than I do. In this case the change to US style dating is justified and well within WikiP's policies. MarnetteD | Talk 21:06, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

If it is going to be changed, then it should be changed for the entire article, not just the few dates that you changed. Many American sources use the day-month-year format. In fact, the first three American books that I pulled off the shelf, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (which has an article on Gramm, by the way), The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, and D. Kern Holoman's Berlioz, all used it. It is certainly common enough that there is really no need to insist on one or the other, even if the subject of the article happens to be American. In my opinion, it should be writer's choice. But I agree that it should be consistent throughout the article. --Robert.Allen (talk) 03:34, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for changing the ones I missed. Off wiki stuff and then sleep kept me from getting back here. MarnetteD | Talk 15:51, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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