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Even when surrounded by square brackets, those dates that do not contain both a day and a month—such as solitary months, solitary days of the week, solitary years, decades, centuries, and month-year combinations—are not autoformatted. One could make them links by using the standard piped-link notation, but the same advice applies here: such links should not be created unless they are of high value to the reader. (See [[WP:CONTEXT]].)

*Autoformatting Pipeddoes not function for piped links to date elements, such as "<nowiki>[[20 June|the 20th of June]]</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>[[1997 in South African sport|1997]]</nowiki>". (Several forms of piped links break the date-formatting function.)

Autoformatting fails to work in the following situations:

* Links to date ranges in the same calendar month, such as "<nowiki>[[December 13-17]]</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>the night of [[30/31 May]]</nowiki>" cause autoformatting to fail. The autoformatting mechanism will output such dates in a damaged form: '''30/May 31''', etc.

* Piped links to date elements, such as "<nowiki>[[20 June|the 20th of June]]</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>[[1997 in South African sport|1997]]</nowiki>". (Several forms of piped links break the date-formatting function.)

* Links to date ranges in the same calendar month, such as "<nowiki>[[December 13-17]]</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>the night of [[30/31 May]]</nowiki>". The autoformatting mechanism will output such dates in a damaged form: '''30/May 31''', etc.

Date elements on disambiguation pages and section headings should never be linked; the same applies to quotations, unless the original quote is linked.