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POSTED: If you aren’t a Wikifriend of mine, don’t edit here. Greg L (talk) 20:32, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

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

RfCs

• Misplaced Pages:Date formatting and linking poll initiated by User:Ryan Postlethwaite closed 13 April 2008
• 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)

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
• Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking
• Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking talk page
• Misplaced Pages: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).
• Misplaced Pages: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
• Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Evidence
  • Dynamic dates was created in July 2003 - timeline
• Misplaced Pages: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
• Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Proposed_decision

Policy & essays

• Misplaced Pages:MOSNUM
  • Proposal on international date format
  • Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_D1 (Years and dates archive)
• Misplaced Pages: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)
• Misplaced Pages:Linking
• Misplaced Pages:Why dates should not be linked (Greg L's essay)
  • Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Why dates should not be linked (LC's attempt to remove the page)
• Misplaced Pages:Consensus (Quote: "'Silence implies consent if there is adequate exposure to the community"—at least that's what it said prior to this edit)
• Misplaced Pages: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 Misplaced Pages (Comprehensive backgrounder by Gerry Ashton)
• Misplaced Pages: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)
• Misplaced Pages:IAR (Ignore All Rules)
• Sewer cover in front of Greg L’s house (Example of overlinking)

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)
• UCB's first attempt at a solution
• UCB's second attempt at a solution
• UCB'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)
• UCB'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#Free_form_way_of_specifying_dates
• Misplaced Pages:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Announcing_Free_text_time_templates

Bots

• Lightbot 3
• Lightbot 2
• Lightbot 1

Civility lapses

• Sapphic (11 March 2009—resulting in this)
• Kendrick7 (18 March 2009—resulting in this)
• Earle Martin (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

• Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) (closed "speedy keep" 18 November 2008)
• Locke Cole's ANI/AN3 "delinkers hit list"
• Block logs for: LockCole, TennisExpert, ArthurRubin, UCBill, Sapphic.
• 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

List of Fuck-tards

• Greg L (talk)