Talk:Sri Lanka

Jeffrey Bernstein suggests there has been a decision to use full month names (February instead of Feb.) I'm of a divided mind & slightly prefer the abbreviation, but I don't recall any discussion or decision ever being made. Richard Jensen 22:12, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Sorry I changed it. I just checked an email and you said, "you dislike all state abbreviations" -- oops. Okay. I'm out of here.Jeffrey Scott Bernstein 22:16, 6 March 2008 (CST)

the US post office 2-letter state abbreviations bug me (I'm never quite sure whether AR is Arizona or Arkansas or what Missouri Mississippi and Montana should be). :) Richard Jensen 22:29, 6 March 2008 (CST)

An email from CZ has returned me to this site. So I can take a moment to say: The Chicago Manual of Style prefers February __, ____. However, what surprises me is that no CZ discussion let alone decision has ever been made on this most elementary point. I think I better give up proofreading altogether on CZ. But would that mean . . . that no one is a pure proofreader on CZ? In almost every article I read, certainly including my own, there is usually at least one inadvertent mishap. In a recent New Draft of the Week, five or more people voted for a certain article (a wonderful article), but not one of those persons fixed the typos I found, include an entire line doubled by accident. It seems to me that I WAS the only "pure" proofreader here. But I don't need the headache or spectre of ambiguous regulations.Jeffrey Scott Bernstein 22:49, 6 March 2008 (CST)