[WikiEN-l] Contradiction between guidelines

[Luna]

On 2/4/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> 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


Doesn't seem like too big a deal, to me, either way. I think I'd personally
prefer to avoid linking dates in the headings, and just use whichever date
format is most appropriate to the article (much as we'd use UK-English in
UK-related articles), it doesn't seem like anything worth getting into a
scuffle over.

One idea, though, you may be able to avoid the issue entirely, if you use
the dictionary entry-style:

;[[July 8]], [[1949]]
*''Maximum length'' &mdash; 2.8&nbsp;[[metre|m]]
*''Maximum width'' &mdash; 1&nbsp;m
*''Maximum height'' &mdash; 2&nbsp;m
*''Maximum [[engine displacement]]'' &mdash; 150&nbsp;[[cubic
centimetre|cc]] ([[Four-stroke cycle|four-stroke]]), 100&nbsp;cc;
([[Two-stroke cycle|two-stroke]])

Just a thought. See if you like it -- helps clear out the TOC, if you start
doing these things in really long articles. Sometimes people like to have
the distinct sections, though.

-Luna