History of Words that should not be used in wikipedia articles

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	Revision 22 . . (edit) December 16, 2001 9:39 pm by Zundark [NPOV]
	Revision 21 . . (edit) December 16, 2001 5:42 am by Arcade *[ added 'norwegian' to languages where billion == 10^12]**
	Revision 20 . . December 16, 2001 5:41 am by (logged).126.151.xxx
	Revision 19 . . December 16, 2001 5:38 am by (logged).126.151.xxx
	Revision 18 . . (edit) December 16, 2001 5:31 am by (logged).126.151.xxx
	Revision 17 . . December 13, 2001 7:47 am by AxelBoldt [natural numbers == non-negative integers in Wikipedia]
	Revision 16 . . December 13, 2001 6:05 am by (logged).109.250.xxx [in many cases it does not matter which definition of natural number is chosen]
	Revision 15 . . December 13, 2001 4:15 am by Taw [don't use "natural number"]
	Revision 14 . . (edit) November 25, 2001 9:05 am by Grasso
	Revision 13 . . October 29, 2001 9:40 pm by Pinkunicorn

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Changed: 53c51

Since recently, people have disagreed whether a billion is 10⁹ or 10¹², and in Spanish, French and German the word still stands for the latter. So it's best to avoid it altogether or at the very least explain it at its first occurance in an article.

Since recently, people have disagreed whether a billion is 10⁹ or 10¹², and in Spanish, French, Norwegian and German the word still stands for the latter. So it's best to avoid it altogether or at the very least explain it at its first occurance in an article.

Changed: 59c57

The preferred date format ought to be YYYY-MM-DD since it is easy to interpret and standardized in ISO8601? (see http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).

Some people think that the preferred date format ought to be YYYY-MM-DD since it is easy to interpret and standardized in ISO 8601 (see http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime).