[WikiEN-l] Linking Dates

[geni]

2008/10/18 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
> Changing a previously widely accepted standard should take much wider
> discussion than this has received, and over a longer period of time.

It got discussed over months and by rather a wide selection of people
(they kept starting to delink dates and people kept noticing).

> It's very easy at Wikipedia for a few people to move in fast and get
> something changed; the test is whether it hold up under subsequent
> scrutiny.

It has repeatedly.

> And even actual consent ahead of time may change quite
> rapidly once people truly see the implications on a large scale in the
> encyclopedia.

We already seen it on a fair sized scale. That you didn't notice
doesn't mean it hasn't been happening.

-- 
geni