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From: "Charlotte Webb" <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Date linking a done deal!?!
On 11/10/08, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
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.
Actually, it doesn't.
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.
Other reasons include but are not limited to:
*Lack of an objective way to determine whether a link is "relevant to
the context", particularly if one has no familiarity with the subject
matter.
*Lack of a reason to have day/month/year articles, if they will go
unread in the absence of incoming links (no traffic).
There's no telling when such information might get automated, used and reprinted. I
would've liked to get information about hits on
http://www.ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/font/Saffron_Karaoke_Duet.wmv , because "Copies on
optical disk must be gifts." is a pretty open license and so far, I've only had
one personal "liked it" review (And he was looking at version three; I'm at
version five.). My sister's copy will be late for her birthday, yesterday. In any
case, since I'm designing it for a-capella training, there's really only one test
of whether it will last. Did I mention that I hav another arrangement in mind? Point is,
that some numbers don't really matter, unless people remember.
*Lack of an efficient way to update and maintain such pages in the
absence of incoming links (no whatlinkshere).
—C.W.
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