On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.comwrote:
On 10/10/08, nsk nsk@karastathis.org wrote:
Hoping this will provide an insight into why some people want years linked and why they so like to build the web.
You may be preaching to the choir here, though I can only speak for myself.
—C.W.
Cool, I've always wanted to be in a choir! I agree as well. A year should be linked in its first appearance in the article- even modern dates will be "history" in just a few years. Historical context is *important* and this total de-linking of all dates is damaging.
However, the wiki is resilient and I've been watching people re-linking stuff after a script delinking has been done. It should be interesting to watch how the *real* consensus pans out on the general wiki rather than on a single talk page.