2008/10/9 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net:
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...
Thanks, all, for your input. I do almost all of my editing in biographies and wondered from the beginning why it was necessary. Now, my next question is, when going in to edit an existing Article that has the dates linked, should they be routinely de-linked?
Insamuch as they should routinely have been linked before, yes. :-)
(In other words: you can if you want to, but if you leave them as is someone will come along and do it in time. There's certainly no compulsion.)