User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2008/Jul

AfD nomination of List of drum corps
An article that you have been involved in editing, List of drum corps, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/List of drum corps. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? JimBurnell (talk) 20:41, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Date format changes
I am not sure why you are removing the correctly formatted dates. They use the autoformatting mechanisms and they are visible according to the user's date preferences (if a setting has been chosen by registered users). Please see MOS:SYL and don't change the date formatting, Thanks! — CZmarlin (talk) 01:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * That's exactly my comment. As far as I understand MOS it is ok with linking dates like October 6 2007. I do not believe such links should be removed. Solitary years (like in 2008) should be de-linked. Renata (talk) 02:30, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

There has been a change in the consensus view on linking of dates (see WP:CONTEXT). Careful consideration of the disadvantages and advantages of the autoformatting mechanism should be made before applying it: the mechanism does not work for the vast majority of readers, such as unregistered users and registered users who have not made a setting, and can affect readability and appearance if there are already numerous high-value links in the text.

Since autoformatting benefits only a small number of users and it's a distraction for most readers, I'm unlinking dates whenever I'm making other improvements to articles. Colonies Chris (talk) 10:32, 21 July 2008 (UTC)