Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll: Difference between revisions

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-->'''Development risks.''' The failure of the original autoformatting was largely due to the ''ad hoc'' imposition of a design by programmers acting without agreed specifications (clear objectives) by the community. The so-called fixes suggested are of limited scope and functionality, and have not been agreed to by the community. We should not risk allowing solutions to be tacked on bit by bit over the next few years, requiring increasingly complicated syntax even further remote from the average editor. Among these issues would be non-breaking spaces, [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Longer_periods|AD/BC]], [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Slashes|slashed]], [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dates|ISO]] and [[Gregorian calendar|Gregorian]]/[[Julian_calendar|Julian]] dates. [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dates|Date ranges]]—avoiding the clunkiness and forced repetitions that the original system involved—would be a significant challenge.}}

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==Month-day linking==

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==Year linking==

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{{quotation|All specific language dealing with year links will be removed from the Manual of Style and related pages. This will have the effect of treating year links like any other potential link. (This need not include mentions of linking in the context of auto-formatting; whether these are current guidance or a historic note depends on the question on auto-formatting above.) }}

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