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