[WikiEN-l] Date linking a done deal!?!

[Marc Riddell]

on 11/10/08 10:19 AM, Carcharoth at carcharothwp at googlemail.com wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Marc Riddell
> <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>wrote:
> 
>> on 11/10/08 8:58 AM, Carcharoth at carcharothwp at googlemail.com wrote:
>> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
>> 
>>> That is a single-year delinking, which is generally accepted by many
>> people,
>>> though there was a bit of debate about that. This is different from
>>> delinking both date (day and month) and year, which I believe Lightmouse
>> has
>>> stopped doing with his bot (Lightbot). As for the BRFA, I commented at
>> some
>>> point that it was open-ended to the point of uselessness.
>> 
>> Please take a look at this. This is the Main Article Page for Joe Pass.
>> It's
>> the one I'm talking about:
>> 
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Pass&diff=250847598&oldid=2470
>> 63018
>> 
> 
> That's the one I'm looking at as well. The link seems to be breaking over
> two lines.
> 
> Does this work better?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Pass&diff=250847598&oldid=247063
> 018
> 
> 
> What I see there is this change:
> 
> from: "January 13, [[1929]] ­ May 23, [[1994]]"
> to: "January 13, 1929 ­ May 23, 1994"
> 
> That is the single-year link to the birth year being removed.
> And the single-year link to the death year being removed.
> 
> A full date delinking would have been:
> 
> from: "[[January 13]], [[1929]] ­ [[May 23]], [[1994]]"
> to: "January 13, 1929 ­ May 23, 1994"
> 
> The discussion at the talk page of MOSNUM did raise the valid point that
> single-year linking has been avoided for years, and that discussion probably
> predates the start of date autoformatting. My view is that the advent of
> autoformatting meant that the various date linking debates went quiet, and
> now they are coming back because some people (quite rightly) want to link
> dates for reasons other than autoformatting.
> 
Carcharoth,

At least we're on the same page now :-). I have always thought that linking
all the parts of a Birth & Death date was overkill. But I still believe that
linking the Year gives a broader context to the person's life.

And the beat goes onŠ :-)

Marc