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::: I believe we're talking about two different things Ssoul. Above is discussion about the Dynamic Dates config line which would disable autoformatting entirely. I'm referring to a patch which would not touch autoformatting per se (which is what all the complication above appears to be about) but merely modify it to not link dates. [[User:Dmadeo|dm]] ([[User talk:Dmadeo|talk]]) 02:58, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) ah - sorry! you mean the patch that uses linking markup for dates but instead of linking them it autoformats them, apart from serious problems handling punctuation and date ranges? that was thoroughly discussed while the last RfC was being constructed, and even the pro-DA people decided it was not a good idea to propose that route to the community. someone else can i'm sure direct you to that discussion. meanwhile it's very hard to see any justification at all for a "first step" that would entail complicating the editing process simply to prolong the existence of a function that the community doesn't want: that patch would entail eye-glazing instructions for using double square brackets to link/not to link and for punctuating bracketed dates. [[User:Sssoul|Sssoul]] ([[User talk:Sssoul|talk]]) 04:47, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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