Thread:Katat0nyx/@comment-14583096-20131102193306/@comment-15636815-20131104065324

Kat, I think that your post implies what I'm about to write below. I just wanted to make the thought explicit, reducing room for error.

After detecting that the dateformat failed, it would be total awesomesauce if Template:Date could then parse the input parameter and create a text date, for example, 2013-11-?? or 2013-11-xx or 2013-Nov. That's going to be really complex, though, because then we have to catch all the errors ourselves instead of allowing a pre-existing magic word to do it for us.