[WikiEN-l] Contradiction between guidelines

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

Can't someone dig into the MediaWiki code and have full dates display
according to the preferences no matter what format they're in even without
them being linked? That would solve the whole thing.

Mgm


On 2/5/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
>
> >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".
> >
> Just because you want to invent that kind of rule in your own little
> imagination doesn't mean that it's going to apply to anybody else.  If
> you don't want to link from section headings nobody is going to force
> you to do it.  Please don't disrespect others by saying that they can't.
>
> Ec
>
>
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