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Revision as of 08:18, 16 April 2009
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
- Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Evidence
- Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking/Evidence talk page
- 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)
- 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#Free_form_way_of_specifying_dates
- Misplaced Pages:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Announcing_Free_text_time_templates
Bots
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
- Sockpuppetry by User:UC_Bill, alias User:Sapphic alias User:Wclark_xoom and User:169.229.149.174