User talk:Keith D

Welcome!

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Hello, Keith D, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:


I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  --Alex (talk) 20:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings of the season

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A Merry Christmas. (Sled with holly)
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Hello Keith D: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Spread the love; use {{subst:User:Dustfreeworld/Xmas3}} to send this message.
--Dustfreeworld (talk) 15:49, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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21:54, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Talk Updates, Yorkshire Lifeboat pages

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HI @Keith D

I guess I just want to say thankyou for the updates to the talk pages of the Yorkshire Lifeboat Pages.

I don't even begin to understand what benefit this has, but I do believe its not upto the creator to rate their own pages, seems bad form.

Best wishes for 2024. Martin Ojsyork (talk) 22:32, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Date formats

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Hi there, I'm wondering why you changed the date format in the citations on Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom? Best practice is to use ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD and use the template, e.g. 'use DMY dates', to set the local presentation format for the page. The format can then be changed globally trivially. For this reason, I tend to correct citation dates to YYYY-MM-DD when I see them, and would regard your recent changes as unconstructive. Best wishes. Millstream3 (talk) 08:42, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The template also informs the editor which date format to be used in an article and so I correct the dates to match the template when I find that they do not match it. I would not expect ISO dates in articles that state they use one of the other formats. Keith D (talk) 10:49, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The purpose of 'use DMY dates' template is to *format* the dates. That only works on ISO dates in citation templates. Millstream3 (talk) 12:36, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It also informs edtors which format to use in an article, aligning dates also covers dates which are not in citation templates, so do not get changed when displayed. Keith D (talk) 13:35, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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