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===The history of the dispute===

After a long debate at [[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)|MOSNUM talk]] and elsewhere, [[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Archive D6#Again calling for date linking to be deprecated|a poll and subsequent debate]] in August 2008 led to athe stopdeprecation (that is, the discontinuance) of date linking for autoformatting purposes. Several editors then moved forward with a large-scale manual, automated and semi-automated unlinking of dates. However, several editors indicated their opposition to this change, at [[WT:MOSNUM]] and the talk pages of the editors who were unlinking dates. Discussion continued at [[WT:MOSNUM]] on whether enough editors had previously provided input on the issue to accurately represent community consensus. Toward the end of November, two parallel RFCs regarding date linking/unlinking and autoformatting were launched, receiving input from hundreds of editors:

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* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)/Three proposals for change to MOSNUM]]