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

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Can someone please fix up this text so the meaning is clear, especially for non-experts? Otherwise, I'm going to remove it in a few days' time as a dysfunctional part of the RfC.

:sorry if it's unclear. my point is that the previous version wrongly stated that "date markup means linking to articles" when in fact. "linking" and "markup" are not synoyms;synonyms i feeland it's strongly misleading to presentphrase themthis as if they were synonyms. i trust we can make the wording clearer without making it sound like date markup = linking.

:a couple of reasons someone might "want to use a date markup that did ''not'' link to date articles" are mentioned prominently in this RfC: to enable autoformatting or to facilitate the gathering of metadata. neither of those functions require linking, and the same examples of theoretically-possible nonlinking markup are mentioned in the section on autoformatting below. [[User:Sssoul|Sssoul]] ([[User talk:Sssoul|talk]]) 10:59, 14 March 2009 (UTC)