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| <sup class="noprint">[''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias|<span title="The time period in the vicinity of this tag is ambiguous." style="white-space: nowrap;">when?</span>]]{{#ifeq:{{{talk}}}|no||<font class="metadata"> — see [[:{{NAMESPACE}} talk:{{PAGENAME}}#{{{1|When}}}|talk page]]</font>}}'']</sup><includeonly>[[Category:Vague or ambiguous time]]</includeonly><noinclude> | | {{ safesubst:<noinclude/>#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= |
| ==Usage== | | <!--{{When}} begin-->{{Fix |
| Add <code><nowiki>{{When}}</nowiki></code> after a seasonal reference that is used as a time to indicate that the time period is ambiguous and would be clearer by being reworded. Seasons are local phenomena and their usage as a substitute for dates, month names and the like is an example of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias|systemic bias]].
| | | link = Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Chronological items |
| | | | text = when? |
| This usage often manifests itself in phrasing like the following:
| | | title = {{{reason|The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous.}}} |
| * (some event happened) in the (season) of (year).
| | | date = {{{date|}}} |
| * (something was completed) by [the] (season) [of (year)].
| | | cat = [[Category:All articles with vague or ambiguous time]] |
| | | | cat-date = Category:Vague or ambiguous time |
| Most commonly, such phrasing uses [[Northern Hemisphere]] [[temperate zone]] seasons interchangeably with month names or other times, and this can be the source of confusion for people in the tropics or in the opposite hemisphere.
| | }}<!--{{When}} end--> |
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| ==Finding such references==
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| Google can be used to find some examples of such references efficiently, and this suggests that a bot can be written to work in a similar manner. A google search like <code>"the spring of" site:en.wikipedia.org</code> typically returns several thousand hits, of which maybe half are phrases like "the spring of [year]". This suggests that tens of thousands of pages in the English-language Wikipedia may be in need of attention to remove this ambiguous phrasing.
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