[WikiEN-l] Linking Dates

[Andrew Gray]

2008/10/14 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:


> There are many hundreds of thousands of date related articles in
> Wikipedia.  The number of articles mentioning February 2 is enormous.
> To answer trivia such as "who else was born on the same day" you're no
> worse off searching. (The date article can't hope to list all the
> people born on that day, and whatlinkshere will be no more informative
> than a search).

Interestingly, when I was wondering "what value does a date link have"
the other night, the only particularly "useful" circumstance I could
think of, beyond the obvious case of "articles about holidays etc",
was people's birthdays.

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