Talk:Manual of Style/Date pages
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Notes (2017)[edit]
- ... and a suggestion; for dates with more than five digits (mostly dealing with the distant past) use the comma separator to ease in reading the number.(i.e. -300,000 instead of -300000)
- Ssteve (talk) 07:04, 17 January 2017 (EST)
- Hopefully Thomas will read this, the current system is not set up to use the commas, Steve. Thomas or I would have to change codes and templates to make that happen and I try to not step on Thomas's coding toes...
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 07:35, 17 January 2017 (EST)
- Are you suggesting the formatting for the Article name? Or something within the article itself? 174.199.2.126 09:30, 17 January 2017 (EST)
... both?, My aim is to increase the readability of the article (I sometimes have issues distinguishing 5 or 6 zeros in a row.... Ssteve (talk) 10:01, 17 January 2017 (EST)
- I agree with Steve but understand why the logic currently stands.
- I now vertically slash those entries: 400,000
- - Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 10:15, 17 January 2017 (EST)