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In the test system I still see <code><nowiki>[[:January 2]]</nowiki><code> linking to "Januari 2" and <code><nowiki>[[:2 January]]</nowiki><code> linking to "2 Januari". Since it is awkward to have an article name starting with a number, the date articles are named like "Januari 2". Even when the format (or source) is in the form "2 Januari", or "2008-01-02", it should still link to "Januari 2". And with the current system, they do. −[[User:Woodstone|Woodstone]] ([[User talk:Woodstone|talk]]) 20:24, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
:Apparently I'm still not being clear. The old system and new system ''link'' everything exactly the same way. There's no difference. You're looking at the examples of ''prefixed'' links, which are one way of overriding the autoformatting. The old (current) system works the same way: [[:2 January]] (<nowiki>[[:2 January]]</nowiki>) is a link to a page named "2 January" just as with the new system. There's probably not any good reason to ever ''use'' such links, but the point of the examples was to show that there's no change in behavior between the old and new systems, in that regard. --[[User:UC Bill|UC_Bill]] ([[User talk:UC Bill|talk]]) 20:31, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
::I'm wondering if <code>:</code> prefixed dates shouldn't also be auto formatted. If someone wants to intentionally format a date a certain way they can override that via pipes. For example:
::*<code><nowiki>[[January 1]], [[2009]]</nowiki></code> should be unlinked and auto formatted.
::*<code><nowiki>[[:January 1]], [[2009]]</nowiki></code> should be linked and auto formatted.
::*<code><nowiki>[[January 1|January 1]], [[2009]]</nowiki></code> should be linked and not auto formatted.
::Does this make sense? Basically use a full colon (<code>:</code>) to imply an intentional link with auto formatting, and a date without a colon to imply a date that's not linked but is auto formatted as well. For cases where you want the link and a specific date format you can do it by hand with the pipe. —[[User:Locke Cole|Locke Cole]] • [[User talk:Locke Cole|t]] • [[Special:Contributions/Locke Cole|c]] 00:46, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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