Talk:Florida shuffle

A fact from Florida shuffle appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 April 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Florida shuffle refers to recovering drug addicts caught between multiple rehab centers and "patient brokers" for their insurance money?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Florida Shuffle.

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Change in Ref Dates?[edit]

@Adog: Hi there. I see in a recent edit you added links and changed the format style of the dates in the references. Thanks for adding the links but can I ask why you changed the format of the dates? I primarily use Visual Editor to do sustained content writing and while I don't really care too much about date consistency when I attempt to get content to good/featured status many of the reviewers care a great deal about consistency. As such I try to be consistent from the get go using the VE format so that I don't have to go back and correct some references later. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:22, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Barkeep49; Hello, apologies if that edit was troublesome. From my observation when looking at references (as some others sometimes prefer), it tends to be easier to read the dates spelled out rather than in numerical form, though I guess people prefer different things. If you'd like I am more than willing to revert back to YYYY-MM-DD in numerical format. :) Adog (Talk・Cont) 02:32, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Adog Frankly I don't prefer anything when it comes to references. Other people who weigh in on what I write seem to prefer consistency and I'm told by those who are experts at such things that YYYY-MM-DD is ok per WP:CITESTYLE and that WP:CITEVAR says the formats shouldn't be changed merely on personal preference grounds. Anyhow thanks your response and I'm going to go ahead and restore the previous format. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:39, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Barkeep49; interesting, never knew. Thank you for introducing me to that piece of knowledge. Adog (Talk・Cont) 02:48, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's also MOS:DATETIES. This is an article that is strongly a US topic. – The Grid (talk) 20:47, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Liquid Gold[edit]

There is no indication that the New York Times article is saying that the liquid gold reference is facetious. Further in response to Minerman30's edit summary there are other RS using the phrase. Examples: [1] [2] [3] We should not be adding editorializing comments, in parenthesis even more so, to mischaracterize RS. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 04:28, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]