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:{{quotation|I've often wondered why we need to link to dates but I simply did it since it seems to be a tradition. I'm now not linking to dates at all if I don't feel the linked date article will provide further relevant details to the current article, which is almost all the time.}}
:Yet, here you are again, with the same thing. And the outcome will be the same. I guess it’s probably good that I don’t understand your logic and tactics. <span style="white-space:nowrap;">'''[[User:Greg L|Greg L]]'''
::could someone who favours this proposal explain the rationale for linking years in such cases, please and thank you - is it to visually highlight them, or ... ? [[User:Sssoul|Sssoul]] ([[User talk:Sssoul|talk]]) 07:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
:::This part of the whole debate is just yet another occurrence of the ancient debate between [[meta:immediatism|immediatists]] and [[meta:eventualism|eventualists]]. The immediatists say "year pages aren't useful", the eventualists say "be patient. Look at [[1345]] as an example of what year pages will be like."
:::I ask the de-linking side: if your concern is that year articles aren't good enough, why don't you get off your ass and do something about it, rather than removing 99% of links to them and helping to guarantee that the improvements needed will almost certainly not be made for a very, very, very long time? Thousands of our articles are complete garbage, much worse than any year article you could point to, containing mistakes, mangled English, irrelevant rambling or even flat-out lies. If your approach was taken to its ultimate extension, we should have hordes of robots removing links to anything tagged as needing cleanup or a rewrite. -- [[User:Earle Martin|Earle Martin]] [<sup>[[User_talk:Earle Martin|t]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Earle_Martin|c]]</sub>] 15:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
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