User talk:Ronny corral

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Date unlinking
I was afraid you'd ask that! :-) I'm not sure when or why Philip C. Johnson was introduced as an example of a particular practice, but it seems to me a very bad choice.  There is no real consensus on whether dates should always or never be linked, but there is (I think) consensus that they should sometimes be linked, and you seem to be doing mass changes without taking that into account.  If you have a look at [], which will no doubt lead you to related discussions, you will see the amount of disagreement and bad feeling generated by this issue.  I am in favour of the linking of dates of birth and death and see no reason to remove the links wholesale.  To me that is just a waste of time and energy when there are other, far more useful, edits that could be made (cleaning up and wikifying new articles, for example). Deb (talk) 12:54, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, this is a [|better one to look at] because I don't see that it's resolved yet. Deb (talk) 13:01, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I'll check out the links you pointed to. It's not a big deal to me, I was just killing time while watching bad tv while I'm on call between pages. I thought I was doing something non-controversial but that's probably not going to happen.  :)  I'll find something else to pass the time.  Ronny corral (talk) 01:03, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I think you were doing good work, and on the correct side of the question. User talk:Rich_Farmbrough has been full at work with date de-linking. Maybe he can clear-up the official policy. Thanks for contributing, hope you stay around. Emargie (talk) 16:18, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * And here is another indication you are on the correct side of the question User:Full-date_unlinking_bot Emargie (talk) 14:53, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info on the bot Emargie. That's interesting.  I feel better about this.  (I was AFK due to holidays so my response was delayed.)  Ronny corral (talk) 21:47, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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