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

[Andrew Gray]

2008/10/12 Elias Friedman <elipongo at gmail.com>:

> I agree as well. A year should be linked in its first appearance in the
> article- even modern dates will be "history" in just a few years. Historical
> context is *important* and this total de-linking of all dates is damaging.

As an aside, I like the arguments for year-linking. This doesn't
require full date-linking, though - why not delink the "May 17" part
and leave "1973"?

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