[WikiEN-l] Linking Dates

[Andrew Gray]

2008/10/9 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:

>> The old system was laudable, but really only worked for a small
>> minority of readers, usually active editors themselves. For everyone
>> else, it just got confusing...
>
> Thanks, all, for your input. I do almost all of my editing in biographies
> and wondered from the beginning why it was necessary. Now, my next question
> is, when going in to edit an existing Article that has the dates linked,
> should they be routinely de-linked?

Insamuch as they should routinely have been linked before, yes. :-)

(In other words: you can if you want to, but if you leave them as is
someone will come along and do it in time. There's certainly no
compulsion.)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk