On 11/30/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
AIUI there is more than one bot out there changing it back to "links".
I really ought to keep a list of these situations. I see it quite frequently: people who decide to enforce some preference that isn't goverened by the MoS on the whole of Wikipedia. There are people who change this:
==Heading== Text
To:
==Heading==
Text
and vice versa. There are people who change this: ==Heading==
to this:
== Heading ==
and vice versa.
AWB (AutoWikiBrowser) enforces several "clean-up" methods on articles that aren't strictly dictated by the MoS, such as stub tags coming after categories (or is that before...) and generally reducing the possibility of common sense intervening.
Moral of the story: Please *don't* inflict a personal choice on Wikipedia at large unless the MoS unambiguously states a very clear preference for your choice. In this case, the MoS seems pretty clear that "External links" is the preferred spelling. I seem to recall that either was acceptable but can't seem to find that now.
Steve