Talk:HMAS Canberra (1927)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the HMAS Canberra (1927) article.
Please sign and date your posts using four tildes (~~~~). New discussion topics go at the bottom of the page; click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Frequently asked questions. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Talk page guidelines Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Don't bite the newcomers!

	This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.
B	This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale.
Related task forces... Australian military history task force Maritime warfare task force Military memorials and cemeteries task force World War II task force

This article is part of WikiProject ADF, (Australian Defence Force) an attempt to better organize information in articles related to the Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Air Force and the Australian Defence Force in general. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

	This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Shipwrecks, an attempt to improve coverage of shipwreck-related topics. See also the parent WikiProject, WikiProject Disaster Management. If you plan to work on this article for an extended period of time, please indicate what you are doing on the Project's talk page.
NB: Assessment ratings and other indicators given below are used by the Project in prioritising and managing its workload.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project's quality scale.
???	This article has not yet been assigned a rating on the Project's importance scale.
Shipwreck-related priority open tasks: Contents 1 To Do 2 Done 3 Date format 4 Date format [edit] To Do Shipwrecks Clean up typos Improve Grammer Add any additions if needed Discuss disired additions Cattewater Wreck Needs expansion [edit] Done Shipwrecks Re-wrote the first paragraph Cleaned up Types of Shipwrecks it felt a bit jumbled Cattewater Wreck Started the article

[edit] Date format

Best practice is to wikify dates into the format [[20 January]] [[2001]] or [[January 20]] [[2001]] because this displays dates to the reader in their preferred format. The examples above would both display as 20 January 2001 to a reader with British preferences set. And January 20, 2001 to a reader with U.S. preferences (the default). See how these look to you:

• 20 January 2001 displays as 20 January 2001
• [[20 January]], 2001 displays as 20 January, 2001
• [[20 January]] 2001 displays as 20 January 2001
• [[20 January]], [[2001]] displays as 20 January 2001
• [[20 January]] [[2001]] displays as 20 January 2001
• January 20, 2001 displays as January 20, 2001
• [[January 20]] 2001 displays as January 20 2001
• [[January 20]], 2001 displays as January 20, 2001
• [[January 20]], [[2001]] displays as January 20, 2001
• [[January 20]] [[2001]] displays as January 20, 2001

We don't need to wikilink subsequent appearences of the same year when they are just a year, or even a month and year. But full dates should be wikified, if for no other reason than to display that comma for U.S. readers. See WP:MOSDATE --Surgeonsmate 22:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Unless someone can come up with a very good reason to have non-standard dates for this article, I intend to revert to the MoS standard of January 20, 2001 throughout, because if the years in a full date are left unlinked, the commas are displayed incorrectly for some readers. --Surgeonsmate 18:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date format

Sorry about that i was suppose to finish the dates but i forgot