Angelina Jordan Wiki:Dates
Editors are strongly encouraged to use the ISO format for dates↗ (commonly referred to as "YYYY-MM-DD") on this wiki. That is, use something like "2006-01-10" instead of, say, "1/10/2006", "January 10, 2006", "10 January 2006", etc. This is partly for clarity (since a date like "1/10/2006" can be interpreted as meaning the 10th day of January or the 1st day of October) and partly so that dates can be automatically linked to entries on our timeline and formatted according to users' preferences (so one person can see something like "January 10, 2006" and someone else "10 January 2006" — see "Date format" under "Appearance" in Special:Preferences). This formatting is provided by our templates {{d}} (for dates that are to be linked to the timeline) and {{du}} (for "unlinked" dates).
Any date directly relevant to Angelina's life or career should be formatted using our {{d}} template. For example:
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Angelina was born on {{d|2006-01-10}}.→ Angelina was born on 2006-01-10.
Not this:
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Angelina was born on [[2006-01-10]].→ Angelina was born on 2006-01-10.
On the other hand, dates that are not directly relevant to Angelina should not be linked to our timeline. So, for example:
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"Lonely" was first released as a single on {{du|2020-10-16}}.→ "Lonely" was first released as a single on 2020-10-16.
But not this:
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"Lonely" was first released as a single on {{d|2020-10-16}}.→ "Lonely" was first released as a single on 2020-10-16.
Notice how this link shows up as a "bluelink" (or purple if you have visited it) but doesn't actually go anywhere in the timeline, since "2020-10-16" is not a significant date (as far as we know) in Angelina's life.
Note that just using a raw plain-text date like this
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"Lonely" was first released as a single on 2020-10-16.→ "Lonely" was first released as a single on 2020-10-16.
is discouraged because it doesn't allow different users to see different date formats if they want to. (See the documentation of {{du}} for more details.)
Note also that "dated" expressions using "as of" should be marked up using our special {{as of}} template:
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This is still true {{as of|2025-01-01|lc=y|update-after=2026-01-01}}.→ This is still true as of 2025-01-01. - ✔
{{As of|2025-08-12|update-after=2026-01-01}}, the channel has 32 videos and just over 480,000 subscribers.→ As of 2025-08-12, the channel has 32 videos and just over 480,000 subscribers.
Unfortunately, the template doesn't actually do much of anything with its input at the moment (including the update-after parameter), but this should be changing at some point in the future.
