User:GFHandel/Date Linking and Formatting Links

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

RfCs

Wikipedia: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
Wikipedia: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
Wikipedia: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
Wikipedia: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#Dates_case:_Calling_for_Ryan_Postlethwaite_to_step_aside_as_clerk
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Proposed_decision

Policy & essays

Wikipedia: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)
Wikipedia:Linking
Wikipedia: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)
Wikipedia:Consensus (Quote: "'Silence implies consent if there is adequate exposure to the community"—at least that's what it said prior to this edit)
Wikipedia: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)
Wikipedia: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)
Wikipedia:IAR (Ignore All Rules)
Sewer cover in front of Greg L’s house (Example of overlinking)
Wikipedia: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

Bots

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)