[WikiEN-l] Contradiction between guidelines

[Thomas Dalton]

> Can't someone dig into the MediaWiki code and have full dates display
> according to the preferences no matter what format they're in even without
> them being linked? That would solve the whole thing.

I think it would slow things down too much, as the code would have to
read every page looking for dates, rather than just looking at links.

I did read something on this list a couple of weeks ago about a
possible new way of marking dates... I can't remember the details.