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Revert

The mainstream academic view is that the two birth narratives from the New Testament contradict each other. So much for accepting both as historical. See e.g. McClellan, Dan On contradictions between Matthew & Luke’s nativities on YouTube. tgeorgescu (talk) 01:37, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Date format

As Jesus' own article uses the dmy date format (in conjunction with vast majority of Christianity articles in general), I would like to create consensus about converting this article to dmy.--Marginataen (talk) 12:22, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since the date format is inconsistent, this change would be acceptable to me. I will be especially glad to get rid of the YYYY-MM-DD format in publication dates, since there is the potential to cite sources bearing Julian calendar publication dates, and the YYYY-MM-DD format should not be used for Julian calendar dates. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:56, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've now changed the date format to dmy Marginataen (talk) 17:31, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Date formats/English varieties are article-based, not topic-based. Graham87 (talk) 05:09, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is is possible for the community to decide that articles within a specific topic (e.g. Jesus) ought to use the same formats. Regardless, I am specifically suggesting to change it on this page. Marginataen (talk) 18:52, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

English language variety

The template {{Use Oxford spelling}} was added without discussion or comment. I reverted. The article seems to use a mix of different English varieties. An early version from 22 October 2005 does not require any variety-related spelling corrections to be correct American English. Arguably, this is, more or less, the first non-stub version, so the article should use American English. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:06, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Jesus article itself among numerous other Jesus articles use Oxford spelling. I my mind, it would be nice to have consistency across the topic. Marginataen (talk) 18:56, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]