User talk:Tony1/Information on the removal of DA

Dates and Links

Here are the answeres about my question. "Why are the dates and links changed?".

It's a very good article about this topic.

Now I'm understand the reason/s for changing the dates and links. --AndreaMimi (talk) 13:19, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the latest Pump thread

Quoting myself at WP:VPP#date auto-formatting chaos: There are many arguments in favor of delinking dates, and I don't want to imply that this is the best one, but it's a sufficient one. GS [Geo Swan] says "Making sure I put the dates in my contributions in wikidate format probably represent more than 100 hours of my time". How does it benefit Wikipedia to require all future editors to spend their time the same way? Most editors don't read guidelines or policy, they try to copy what they see in articles. Even if we had a guideline that said "link or not, your choice", the practical effect would be that editors would look around, see that most dates were linked, scratch their heads, and spend proportionate time linking their own dates. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 03:42, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]