On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net>wrote;wrote:
on 11/10/08 8:58 AM, Carcharoth at
carcharothwp(a)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&o…
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&o…
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 on :-)
Marc