On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
If somebody wants to write about events of [[1699]] they probably depend on whatlinkshere to learn that [[William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau]] was born that year and [[Hortense Mancini]] died that year. I'm not sure how else they'd realistically find that out, google maybe?
My linking pet peeve is related: linking all the access dates for online references seriously dilutes the value of whatlinkshere for date articles. The only reason for linking them is to enable auto-formatting of the date, but they are among the lowest value links per se. We need a way to apply date formatting without creating links, and use that in all the citation templates (and encourage its use in manually formatted citations).
-ragesoss