Rowan Collins wrote:
I think the idea is that you can research a list of anniversaries / "on this day" by investigating links in "what links here". I suppose you could have a redirect for every single date in history (that's 730,000 to cover from the New Testament to the present; oh, and that's assuming you only have one valid form for each date, of course...), but for one thing you'd max out the what links here display for the targets (assuming [[4 November 1982]] would redirect to [[4 November]]) without showing a single real page.
And what would you gain exactly? You'd still have to refine the list into a manually edited page to make it in any way interesting or useful, and the result would be... well, remarkably similar to what we have now, I imagine.
For recent times, I would not redirect at all. We have enough material (from current events) to do a single article on each day for the last three years.
For moderately recent times such as November 4 1982, (or, in my case, 19 October 1978?) there is easily enough material available to write a single article if you there was motivation for people to do it.
Going back further there are several options, but it might be better for both [[July 1776]] and [[4 July]] to transclude [[4 July 1776 (data)]] (possibly transcluding an empty page) and for [[4 July 1776]] to redirect to one or other of them.
Pete