Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130221023236

Eh, that's not strictly true. And I mean both sentences of your final paragraph. It's not really "American" and it's not forbidden here to use MM DD, YY.

I draw your attention to T:DATES, the last paragraph of which does allow for what is erroneously thought of as the "American" method of MM DD. It's allowed, but we discourage the creation of redirects on that format.

The key is that you use the same format in any single article.