Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130221024403

That's your option, of course. Just please don't correct uses of what you're quite wrongly calling "American" and suggest to other users that you're doing the right thing while they have done the wrong.

And don't misread what's meant by "preferred". T:DATES is largely talking about the preferred way of titling the article — not of actually using dates in articles. There is no preference when it comes to actual usage of dates in articles. Date format is in no way policed by bot.