PubMed source dates with no day
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	Novem_Linguae
	May 25 2022, 10:20 PM

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Go to a wikipedia page
Edit with visual editor
Click "Cite"
Under the "Automatic" tab, paste https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32971147/ and click "Generate"
Click "Insert"
Click "Edit"

What happens?:

Scroll down to "Source date". Will be 2020-12. This is because the PubMed page says "2020 Dec" and has no exact day. However this generates an warning in the {{Cite}} template.

What should have happened instead?:

A better behavior would be to automatically add -01 as the day.

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I thought about filing this as a bug at https://github.com/zotero/translators. However I decided to start here first.

This isn't a one off. A lot of PubMed articles don't have source date days.

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Mentioned Here: T132308: Internationalise citoid dates

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Novem_Linguae updated the task description. (Show Details)May 25 2022, 10:21 PM

I think this is related to this bug here: T132308. In short, the English Wikipedia (and apparently *only* the English Wikipedia) rejects dates in the YYYY-MM format (when the day is unknown or unspecified) because, they argue, could be mistaken for a date range. For example, 2010-12 could either mean "December 2010" or "2010-2012". As mentioned in that (long) thread, the Citoid team tried to fix it with 2010-12-XX (for example); but although it works in the English Wikipedia, it fails in all others.

I have recently suggested that the Citoid extension could be configured to return YYYY-MM-XX in some Wikipedias, and YYYY-MM in others to fix this. See here.

I thought about filing this as a bug at https://github.com/zotero/translators. However I decided to start here first.

I think you decided wisely. I don't think this would be an issue for the Zotero's repository.

We used to add 01 as the day. This made people mad due to "false precision". As has nearly every other way I've tried to resolve this. There is extensive discussion on the other thread if you want to weigh in there!

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