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 :LW, your tone is unnecessarily confrontational, and your self-righteousness regarding MOS is laughable considering your edits. Look again at the title of the article you are talking about—it is not September 11, 2001 attacks. Al-Quaeda is an article about an international topic and should use the international date format. While hidden links should use the date format actually used in the article title, using US dates in reference to the attacks in articles that are not US-centric is arguable, but certainly not the definite proposition you seem to think. What makes your attitude hypocritical is that your solution was to use the date format you used in your contribution above: ""September 11th, 2001"". If you had bothered to read more of MOSDATE than the part you quoted, you would have seen that the ""-th"" is unacceptable. Next time, make sure of your facts before lashing out. This may be part of the internet, but that doesn't give you license to attack without bothering to grasp the facts. -  "