Talk:Tim Paterson

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Born[edit]

'"(1956 or 1957-)"'? You can't get closer than that? nope

Photo[edit]

Why is there no photo? Here's an article with a photo courtesy of Wikipedia? Go figure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Founders Intent (talk • contribs) 01:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Quotes[edit]

Are the quotes really necessary? It seems unencyclopedic to include them as part of the article. Any objections to removing them? -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 02:22, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, they should be moved to WikiQuote then linked from here. -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 08:24, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

SCCA[edit]

The guy has been on TV driving SCCA ProRally cars. 99.164.13.146 (talk) 05:25, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tim Paterson's blog[edit]

Why the URL of Paterson's blog (http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/) was removed?

The URL is "official link" according to rules:

An official link is a link to a website or other Internet service that meets

1. The linked content is controlled by the subject (organization or individual person) of the Wikipedia article.
2. The linked content primarily covers the area for which the subject of the article is notable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.77.194.3 (talk) 14:13, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will try and add it back. If it gets reverted, it should be discussed here. I fixed the format in this section as well.--Canoe1967 (talk) 13:03, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Law suit from 2007[edit]

He had filed an unsuccessful law suit because of Gary Kildall's role in 2005. --SamWinchester000 (talk) 22:41, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Why is the date format for this article set to dmy?[edit]

Based on the facts that the subject is American and that the first non-stub edit to include a full date used mdy (going back to December 25, 2009, per MOS:DATERET, I propose that the format be changed to mdy. Unless someone can provide a VALID reason not to make this change, I will do so after a reasonable amount of time has passed. 1980fast (talk) 05:21, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That was a non-substantial edit. The article was consistently using the ymd format before that edit.

I am one of the major contributors to the article, and I was also the first to use a full date in the prose (outside the infobox template). I prefer dmy in the prose and ymd in the references because dmy is much more commonly used and more logical than mdy. ymd is even more logical and easier to parse (as well as shorter) in references which are shared even beyond the English-speaking world. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:16, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]