On 02/01/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
We have two competing MOS provisions because square-bracketing dates achieves two unrelated effects: creating a link to the article on that date, and formatting it according to user preferences. It's really time we separated the syntax for this (assuming we can find a suitable solution and amenable developers). See:
I'm working on something that might achieve this, pending performance issues and testing; the whole sob saga is being documented on my otherwise hideously-empty blog (http://blog.anubite.co.uk) -- I'm hoping to have it all done to fully-testable standards by the end of the week.
Are you planning any way of having this be selective? I'm wondering about the effect of "correcting" direct quotations, or the titles of works cited as references...