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#'''Support''' I find irrelevant links reduce readability. It's like all the linked dates are read by Billy Mays in my head. [[User:Cstaffa|Cstaffa]] ([[User talk:Cstaffa|talk]]) 23:58, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
#'''Support''' Events that simply happened on any given month-day combination is not an encyclopedic grouping, it's just trivia. Deep down the community recognizes this; that's why we don't have [[:Category:March 24]]. Arbitrarily connecting two topics because ''the Earth happened to be in the same position relative to the sun'' is not at all link-worthy, it is utterly trivial. These month-day combinations are only encyclopedic when the date itself is representative of a specific event: July 4 and September 11 are common names for Independence Day and the destruction of the Twin Towers, respectively; by contrast, Dec 7, however infamous, is not generally used as a synonym for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. [[User:Ham Pastrami|Ham Pastrami]] ([[User talk:Ham Pastrami|talk]]) 06:15, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
#'''Support''' to avoid overlinking. [[User:Fletcher|Fletcher]] ([[User talk:Fletcher|talk]]) 19:25, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
=====I support Option #2 (commemorative links only)=====
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