<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020224404/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-16/news/mn-343_1_aids-program |title=WORLD : American Chief of AIDS Program Quits in Tiff With WHO Leader |publisher=latimes |accessdate=October 20, 2016 |date=October 29, 1987}}</ref>
The reason is that the sidebar has the following:
FROM THE ARCHIVES
West Hollywood : AIDS Program Approved
October 29, 1987
which uses class="date". Meanwhile, the actual publication date uses class="pubdate". I don't want to support a bunch of cases for different news sites, but if there is a general trend in favor of using "pubdate", it might make sense to watch for it.
e.g. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-16/news/mn-343_1_aids-program (archive):
The reason is that the sidebar has the following:
which uses
class="date"
. Meanwhile, the actual publication date usesclass="pubdate"
. I don't want to support a bunch of cases for different news sites, but if there is a general trend in favor of using "pubdate", it might make sense to watch for it.