The community RFC about a proposal for a bot to unlink dates is now open.
Please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Full-date_unlinking_botand
comment on the talk page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Full-date_unlinking_bot#RFC
This has been a rather long-running dispute and a very long arbitration case
about it just closed. I hope this rather conservative proposal can gain
consensus to move forward.
/Apoc2400