From Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers):
(The file normalized.txt referenced below is a version of the 20040727 cur table dump with talk pages removed (script available on request). Due to stack overflow issues in Perl's recursive regular expression engine, a few longer articles are also excluded from these statistics.)
Globally, spaced hyphens are at least 15 times more common than ndashes and mdashes combined:
Likewise, hyphens are approximately 40 times more popular than dashes for date ranges:
As you can also see from those stats (which exclude some date ranges and include some non-date-ranges: patches welcome!), spaced hyphens are used approximately 3 times more often than unspaced hyphens.
chocolateboy 23:39, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
From Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers):
(The file normalized.txt referenced below is a version of the 20040727 cur table dump with talk pages removed (script available on request). Due to stack overflow issues in Perl's recursive regular expression engine, a few longer articles are also excluded from these statistics.)
Globally, spaced hyphens are at least 15 times more common than ndashes and mdashes combined:
Likewise, hyphens are approximately 40 times more popular than dashes for date ranges:
As you can also see from those stats (which exclude some date ranges and include some non-date-ranges: patches welcome!), spaced hyphens are used approximately 3 times more often than unspaced hyphens.
chocolateboy 23:39, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)