On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > To be fair, the date preferences-as-wikilinks situation *had* led to > overlinking. I'm fairly liberal in terms of linking and tend to > overlink from the view of many people, but even I see that many of the > date links were pointless. The trouble is, not all were pointless and > people argued over the details while the bots mostly ignored > restrictions and stripped date links regardless of objections. > Sometimes, in the most ridiculous cases, the bot operator talked to > the objectors, the links were restored with promises that the bot > would be changed, and then the next bot run removed the links again! > That's just inept. Which is why i recommended/suggested a special character for dates, so you can allow autoformatting but not the automatic linking (although i guess you could have a option in your preferences for the people that liked it). Using a special character could have other uses as well i guess like automatic metadata attached to the article or something along those lines.
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