[WikiEN-l] Linking Dates

[Delirium]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> The old "link all dates" is now deprecated, and we're advised to just
> write them in a standard form (14 November 2000 or November 14, 2000).
> It'll be interesting to see if this helps reduce overlinking
> 
> 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...

The old system did, however, tend to reduce the number of tendentious 
editors going around mass-changing date formats to their preferred 
format, because such editors could just set their preferences and not 
have the "wrong" format grate on them henceforth. Anecdotally, there's 
been a big spike in the past few weeks of that sort of garbage editing.

-Mark