Talk:Ulf Merbold

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message: Hi, could you please revert this edit? The article has consistently used mdy for the last 20 years, and the issue has been discussed at the FAC (there are close connections to NASA). Please do not change long-standing date formats without consensus on the talk page. —Kusma (talk) 19:08, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: DMY is correct but whatever - either way the article was not consistent and used both DMY and MDY throughout. I have amended. GiantSnowman 19:27, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It was consistent mdy when it passed GA and when it became a FA, and has been mdy for almost all of its history. —Kusma (talk) 20:16, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

text: The "close connections" to NASA is not relevant. Merhold is German, and the fact that he spent a few years at NASA doesn't override the fact that most of his career was in Europe. For mdy to be relevant to a European he/she should have had the overwhelming majority of his/her career in the US (or the few other mdy using countries). The referred disucssion at the FAC was not a discussion, it was a statement by a single user. Also, this discussion belongs on the talk page of the article, so I am copying it to here, and reverting. --Marbe166 (talk) 19:50, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course it is relevant. I don't know whether this was what caused the original author to choose American English and mdy 20 years ago (he is dead so we can't ask). In any case I (main author of the expansion and FA nominator) don't see a strong reason to overrule MOS:DATERET, and neither did the several experienced reviewers at WP:FAC. The article's sources are mostly mdy or in German. —Kusma (talk) 20:36, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Strong national ties to the topic exist by the fact that he is German, as explained above. Also, American English doesn't automatically mean mdy. --Marbe166 (talk) 20:48, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that he is German. His notability is mostly derived from working with NASA as the Federal Republic of Germany's first astronaut, a rather American experience that is the main focus of the article. —Kusma (talk) 21:02, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: He is an ESA astronaut, not a NASA astronaut. GiantSnowman 21:27, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date format