On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Charlotte Webb
<charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If somebody wants to write about events of [[1699]]
they probably
depend on whatlinkshere to learn that [[William Gustav of
Anhalt-Dessau]] was born that year and [[Hortense Mancini]] died that
year. I'm not sure how else they'd realistically find that out, google
maybe?
My linking pet peeve is related: linking all the access dates for
online references seriously dilutes the value of whatlinkshere for
date articles. The only reason for linking them is to enable
auto-formatting of the date, but they are among the lowest value links
per se. We need a way to apply date formatting without creating
links, and use that in all the citation templates (and encourage its
use in manually formatted citations).
-ragesoss