Wikipedia talk:Date formatting and linking poll/Archive 1: Difference between revisions

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One of the "Advantages" of month-day linking is: ''Populates "what links here" pages with possibly relevant data.'' I went to the March 14 page and clicked on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/March_14&limit=500 What Links Here.] I was able to click "next 500" 18 times, over 9000 pages link to March 14. (Filtering to Articles only reduced this to 13 "next 500" clicks.) The links are listed in the order they were created. So if a reader clicks "what links here", that can peruse 9000 random order pages that may or may not have anything enlightening. How is this more useful than pressing "Random article"?

The same goes for year linking. To avoid "recentism", I selected 1931., (Thethe year in which [[Hope_Lange#Date_of_birth | Hope Lange]] was not born in.) The year 1931 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/1931&limit=500 What Links Here] shows about 6000 random order pages. I can't see where this type of linking finds any relevant data.-- [[User:Swtpc6800|SWTPC6800]] ([[User talk:Swtpc6800|talk]]) 19:47, 14 March 2009 (UTC)