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which make sense in countries using the month-day date format like the United States, i.e., 3/14.. A question: Apart from the USA and Belize, are there any other countries that use this date format? Manning (talk) 00:43, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Philippines? Some Canadian newspapers? I'm not sure, but I've seen more than I expected in non-U.S. sources over the years.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 03:27, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Concerning physicists, perhaps worth noting that Isaac Newton is in the top thousand in the list linked above, and Galileo Galilei the next. Although Max Planck didn’t make the top 5k, h did; likewise the joule is there to memorialize the absent James Prescott. (@Manning Bartlett: maybe try WP:Reference desk/Language.)—Odysseus1479 03:04, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bamyers99: if you set User:DataflowBot/output/Top 20 enwiki articles by edits and editors in past 7 days (id-1) to update on Thursday, I bet they would be more inclined to include it. Also, could you please take the underscores in titles back out? EllenCT (talk) 03:21, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@EllenCT: Will do on both items. --Bamyers99 (talk) 14:37, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]