[WikiEN-l] Linking Dates

[Delirium]

geni wrote:
> See for the most part what
> happened in the year of someone's birth is of little interest unless
> the event dirrectly impacted them. You might be able to make a case
> for the years where they did whatever makes the noteable but even then
> a case could be made that you would do better linking to say 1860s in
> engineering.
>   
That's probably true. I'm personally more annoyed that people come by 
with bots (or bot-like scripts) and unlink centuries. In most cases 
where I actually take the time to write out "[[5th century]]", it's 
because the century is relevant as background information.

Actually I'd have fewer problems in general with any of this if it were 
humans making case-by-case judgments. It's mostly the drive-by 
auto-editing by people who haven't even read the article that I find 
annoying and harmful.

-Mark