[WikiEN-l] Delinking years and only making links relevant to the context considered harmful

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Elias Friedman <elipongo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree as well. A year should be linked in its first appearance in the
> article-
[snip]

Why the *first* appearance?   We've been able to link into sections
for a long time, there are many articles I've read whos intros I've
probably never seen. Do you never become curious about some date on
the Nth occurrence rather than the first?