Andrew Gray wrote:
The old "link all dates" is now deprecated,
and we're advised to just
write them in a standard form (14 November 2000 or November 14, 2000).
It'll be interesting to see if this helps reduce overlinking
The old system was laudable, but really only worked for a small
minority of readers, usually active editors themselves. For everyone
else, it just got confusing...
The old system did, however, tend to reduce the number of tendentious
editors going around mass-changing date formats to their preferred
format, because such editors could just set their preferences and not
have the "wrong" format grate on them henceforth. Anecdotally, there's
been a big spike in the past few weeks of that sort of garbage editing.
-Mark