----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlotte Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "English Wikipedia" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Date linking a done deal!?!
On 11/10/08, Carcharoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The discussion at the talk page of MOSNUM did raise the valid point that > single-year linking has been avoided for years, and that discussion probably > predates the start of date autoformatting. Actually, it doesn't. > My view is that the advent of autoformatting meant that the various date > linking debates went quiet, and now they are coming back because some > people (quite rightly) want to link dates for reasons other than > autoformatting. Other reasons include but are not limited to: *Lack of an objective way to determine whether a link is "relevant to the context", particularly if one has no familiarity with the subject matter. *Lack of a reason to have day/month/year articles, if they will go unread in the absence of incoming links (no traffic). There's no telling when such information might get automated, used and reprinted. I would've liked to get information about hits on http://www.ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/font/Saffron_Karaoke_Duet.wmv , because "Copies on optical disk must be gifts." is a pretty open license and so far, I've only had one personal "liked it" review (And he was looking at version three; I'm at version five.). My sister's copy will be late for her birthday, yesterday. In any case, since I'm designing it for a-capella training, there's really only one test of whether it will last. Did I mention that I hav another arrangement in mind? Point is, that some numbers don't really matter, unless people remember. *Lack of an efficient way to update and maintain such pages in the absence of incoming links (no whatlinkshere). —C.W. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
