Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll/Autoformatting responses: Difference between revisions
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#Oppose. The "pro" arguments are not convincing at all, but the "contra" arguments describe very real problems. All the disadvantages just to give a few people the option to display an article with US spelling in UK date format or vice versa? This is obvious feature bloat. --[[User:Hans Adler|Hans Adler]] ([[User talk:Hans Adler|talk]]) 00:00, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
#Oppose - Most Wikipedia users are ''readers'', not editors, therefore most features should be designed for them. Datelinking devalues useful links. It also necessitates useless extra work for editors. [[User:Awadewit|Awadewit]] ([[User talk:Awadewit|talk]]) 00:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
#I oppose autoformatting. I hate that meaningless blue mess of [[WP:OVERLINK|overlinked]] dates. And isn't it rather odd that people from the US and UK are supposed to be befuddled by each other's ''practically'' identical date formats, when the rest of the world with their much more wildly variable date formatting is quite capable of understanding both of them? [[User:Bishonen|Bishonen]] | [[User talk:Bishonen|talk]] 00:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC).
=====I am neutral on the general concept of autoformatting=====
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