on 11/10/08 8:35 AM, Sam Korn at smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Folks,
Apparently the decision whether or not to link even the year in Birth & Dates is a done deal. There is a bot (Lightbot) dutifully going through and unlinking (or, if you prefer, delinking) all parts of a Birth & Death Date. Pity. I still believe there is value in linking at least the year.
Marc Riddell
If that is the case, that is disturbing, because it is very clearly not permitted by the BRFA (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Lightbot_3
).
I can't, however, see edits removing birth and death date links in recent contributions -- have you got any examples?
Yes. This is the one I found today that prompted my post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Pass&diff=250847598&ol... 63018
Marc