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Section 8.3

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This wiki does not use ordinal suffixes or articles. No comma should be used between month and year. Incorrect: June 25th, 25th June, the 25th of June Correct: 14 February, February 14
etc.

Given we are recording the history of the company over the past 175+ years, where the usage of even more archaic date forms (the 25th day of June) are evident, the designating of such as being incorrect seems silly. Previously I have tried, where known, to include day - such as "Monday, 25th June 2007", which conveys more information than just "25 June" - the first version telling it is a weekday

--Keith 2007-10-24T13:56:26

No strong feelings here - this section is largely a direct lift from Wikipedia. Under the guide as it stands, "Monday, 25 June 2007" would be acceptable. In quotes, the original usage should be preserved. I don't personally have a problem with allowing ordinal suffixes but I would like to see consistency where we aren't quoting some other text, so we should either always have ordinal suffixes or never have them. I think the "no ordinal suffixes" restriction on Wikipedia is partly to do with a feature of their software which reformats dates according to user preferences, a feature we don't have in FestWiki --Peter_Harrison 14:50, 24 October 2007