On 9/5/06, Bill Clark wclarkxoom@gmail.com wrote:
- Ignore wikilinked dates that contain explicit display text, leaving
them untouched. 2) Change all wikilinked dates and associated display text according to user preferences. 3) Encourage a mass renaming of year articles from (e.g.) [[1984]] to [[AD 1984]].
Even though option 3 is completely unrealistic, I mention it because it actually makes the most sense (how did we get started having bare numbers assumed to be a date by default, anyway?). That said, I think option 2 is the best bet, so long as it's considered more important to have consistent date formatting than to honor the display text put in place by editors.
I vote for option 3. There are only 2006 or so of them.
Steve