Wikipedia Date formatting and linking poll Autoformatting responses Regarding your comments in opposition to date autoformatting I d like to point out that one of the core features of any proposed replacement for the current autoformatting was that unregistered anon users see a consistent format within any given article That feature was actually implemented in several different patches and demo systems that were created over the past few months of discussion so it s entirely possible to have autoformatting that doesn t result in a mix of formats