User:GFHandel/Date Linking and Formatting Links

The following are links to the relevant pages in the date linking/formatting saga.

RfCs

 * Date formatting and linking poll initiated by User:Ryan Postlethwaite closed 13 April 2009
 * User talk:Ryan Postlethwaite/Date linking RfC (Discussion about the current RfC)
 * User_talk:Tony1/Date-fragments_user-friendly_version (Tony's suggested rewording of the current RfC)
 * MOSNUM: Three proposals for change to MOSNUM (Tony’s RfC - "RfC 1") closed 25 December 2008
 * MOSNUM: Date Linking RFC (Parallel RfC initiated by User:Masem- "RfC 2") closed 25 December 2008
 * MOSNUM: Unresolved date delinking and autoformatting issues RfC (Greg’s RfC)
 * MOSNUM: Linking of dates of birth and death RfC (The one that shows that it's unclear whether even birth and death dates have linking consensus)
 * MOSNUM: Again calling for date linking to be deprecated RfC initiated by User:Kotniski 16 August 2008

Analysis

 * User:Dabomb87/Summary of the Date Linking RFCs (Dabomb87's analysis)
 * User:Tony1/Information on the removal of DA (Tony1's analysis)
 * Just what did the RfC on month-day date links show? (Tony1's analysis)
 * Exposing the distortions in the "detailed" RfCs on dates (Tony1's analysis)
 * User:Tony1/Support for the removal of date autoformatting (A selection of comments supporting the move away from DA)

Arbitration

 * Notification of arbitration
 * Requests for arbitration/Date delinking
 * Search for "Does that look like the opinion of someone who supports your actions?" here for the section that demonstrates that TE had no support for the re-linking he did
 * see also
 * Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking talk page
 * Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Workshop
 * Cutting the Gordian knot (proposal that: "WP:MOSNUM is declared historic" - defeated).
 * Renaming MOS (proposal that "WP:MOS is hereby renamed WP:WikiProject Style; its subpages are to become Project pages. They are neither policy nor guideline, and shall not be so tagged." - defeated).
 * Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Workshop talk page
 * Comments moved from Workshop discussion
 * RP's call for help to try and resolve the real issue
 * Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Evidence
 * Dynamic dates was created in July 2003 - timeline
 * Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Evidence talk page
 * Complete denial of natural justice discussion
 * Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee
 * Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Proposed_decision

Policy & essays

 * MOSNUM
 * Proposal on international date format
 * MOSNUM essay on date autoformatting
 * Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_D1 (Years and dates archive)
 * Wikipedia:MOSNUM talk
 * Son of autoformatting specification (Attempt to find out what was being proposed by a new date formatting system - stalled)
 * Fix/replace date autoformatting (UCB's thoughts and ensuing discussion on a new system for date linking/formatting)
 * It's the square brackets, stupid! (Sapphic's attempt to explain things. This is the one that contained the statistical "debate" about the number of articles that contained linked dates)
 * Son of autoformatting would expose us to an extremely risky experiment (Tony1's lead produced a lengthy discussion)
 * Linking
 * Why dates should not be linked (Greg L's essay)
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Why dates should not be linked (LC's attempt to remove the page)
 * Consensus (Quote: "'Silence implies consent if there is adequate exposure to the community''"—at least that's what it said prior to this edit)
 * Silence and consensus (Quote: "Consensus can be presumed to exist until voiced disagreement becomes evident")
 * Auto-formatting is evil (An essay by The_Duke_of_Waltham)
 * History of ISO 8601 and date autoformatting in Wikipedia (Comprehensive backgrounder by Gerry Ashton)
 * Trivia sections (Quote: "Avoid creating lists of miscellaneous facts"—pertinent to year pages)
 * There is no deadline (This one sometimes makes an appearance in terms of not hurrying a processes)
 * Build the web (Discussion about linking at WP. Merge issues with WP:Linking)
 * IAR (Ignore All Rules)
 * Sewer cover in front of Greg L’s house (Example of overlinking)
 * Date debate (Feb 2006 essay discussing a possible technical solution to allow date autoformatting without dates being linked)

Coding

 * Bugzilla ID 4582 (The three-year saga)
 * Most recent demo page (For the proposed date formatting/linking system.) Thanks to a recent brain explosion, the demo doesn't demonstrate quite as much as it did—and is a little blue.
 * Werdna's addition (to the current date formatting/linking system)
 * Date test (Ohconfucius' test page for Werdna's patch)
 * UC_Bill's first attempt at a solution
 * UC_Bill's second attempt at a solution
 * UC_Bill's next attempt at a solution (This is the discussion that proved that Bug 4582 was not RESOLVED at the time it was claimed in RfC2 that a "patch" was available)
 * UC_Bill's next attempt at a solution (This is the one that led to the "Specification for 'son of autoformatting'" page)

Date templates

 * Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_120
 * Village_pump_(miscellaneous)

Bots

 * Lightbot 3
 * Lightbot 2
 * Lightbot 1

Observational tools
Abuse filter 106 - query filter which compiles incidences of delinking of date links from articles outside of 'habitual articles'

Civility lapses

 * Sapphic (11 March 2009—resulting in this)
 * Kendrick7 (18 March 2009—resulting in this)
 * Hex (25 March 2009) (Have to scroll to the end of the diff section)
 * Sapphic (6 April 2009)
 * Sapphic (15 April 2009)

Other links of interest

 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) (closed "speedy keep" 18 November 2008)
 * A famous resignation speech
 * Locke Cole's ANI/AN3 "delinkers hit list"
 * Block logs for: LockCole, TennisExpert, ArthurRubin, UCBill, Sapphic.
 * Requests_for_arbitration/Locke_Cole (from 2006)
 * User:Ohconfucius/Tennis_wars (Summary of the enormous number of revert-type links made by TE—over 750!)
 * TE's attempt to delete this page
 * Sockpuppetry by User:UC_Bill, alias User:Sapphic alias User:Wclark_xoom and User:169.229.149.174 and Bugzilla’s Bill Clark
 * UC Bill indefinitely blocked
 * Sapphic indefinitely blocked
 * IP used by Bill blocked 72 hours for trolling
 * Wclark_xoom indefinitely blocked
 * And another one: User_talk:Thiasos
 * Perhaps the source: User_talk:Bill_Clark (and ).
 * And another one: User_talk:Overweight_and_ugly


 * AE complaint by Sapphic against Dabomb87
 * AE complaint by Locke Cole against Dismas
 * AE complaint by Locke Cole regarding changing ISO to dmy/mdy dates by Ohconfucius
 * RfC into TE
 * Filter watching for date delinking