[WikiEN-l] Contradiction between guidelines

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I just noticed this one. Whenever you have a date, like the 5th of
> October, you're supposed to link it, so that the MediaWiki software
> can reformat it according to the user's preferences: [[5 October]].
> 
> However, you're never supposed to link *anything* in section headings.
> 
> So is this page following the guidelines or breaking them?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car
> 

It would be helpful if our "guidelines"/"policies" were set down in the
same manner as IETF RFCs are, with the same uses of SHOULD, SHOULD NOT,
MUST, MUST NOT, etc...

"never" overrides "always", so "never link anything in section titles in
articles" overrides "always link dates in articles".

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