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	Thanks for the comments on my user page. Probably best to put this sort of this on the user:talk pages (like this one) rather than the user page. Ref what should be on the year pages this is a long debate and my ideas appear to be minority. I think there is way to much information on them and perhaps they should be turned into category pages. --][[user talk:BozMo\|\|talk]] 21:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)		Thanks for the comments on my user page. Probably best to put this sort of this on the user:talk pages (like this one) rather than the user page. Ref what should be on the year pages this is a long debate and my ideas appear to be minority. I think there is way to much information on them and perhaps they should be turned into category pages. --][[user talk:BozMo\|\|talk]] 21:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

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			The article was just fine as it was, stop changing it--] 06:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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Date links

Please don't remove the link markup around dates. Linking of dates has a special function. When linked, they get formatted in the manner set in user preferences. When not linked, they just display as they were entered. See Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) for more information. --GraemeL 19:05, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Date Links

From what I see in the Manual of Style, we should not be linking 'years', when standing alone; 'months', when standing alone; or 'months with days', when the 'year' is not present. Correct? Hmains 22:10, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Pretty much correct. Personally (it's not a policy), I usually link the 1st incidence of any individual year in an article if I think it's relevant. This helps people if they're researching timelines rather than specific subjects. After the 1st link, I don't link them again in the same article. Months, I wouldn't link unless it was an article discussing dates. Not acually sure what the policy is on dates without years as the software will format them to user preferences if they're linked.

Getting into an edit war over date formats with somebody is something you should avoid. Changing them for the sake of changing them could be interpreted as disruption in the same manner as English/American spelling changes are. Anyway, now you know that the software formats linked full dates, I'll leave you to it. --GraemeL 22:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Date links

Re this edit. Dates should definitely remain linked in order to trigger the date preferences for users. Do not remove such links in the future.

Year links are a copletely different matter, and as GraemeL said above, try to avoid edit conflicts over that.

Happy editing. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 08:36, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Reply

Thanks for the comments on my user page. Probably best to put this sort of this on the user:talk pages (like this one) rather than the user page. Ref what should be on the year pages this is a long debate and my ideas appear to be minority. I think there is way to much information on them and perhaps they should be turned into category pages. --BozMo] 21:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

George Washington (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The article was just fine as it was, stop changing it--Xenaphon 06:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Revision as of 21:25, 1 January 2006 editBozMo (talk \| contribs)Extended confirmed users14,164 edits reply to comments← Previous edit		Revision as of 06:10, 4 January 2006 edit undoXenaphon (talk \| contribs)16 edits →we don't need your stinkin' commas you psycho Next edit →
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	Thanks for the comments on my user page. Probably best to put this sort of this on the user:talk pages (like this one) rather than the user page. Ref what should be on the year pages this is a long debate and my ideas appear to be minority. I think there is way to much information on them and perhaps they should be turned into category pages. --][[user talk:BozMo\|\|talk]] 21:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)		Thanks for the comments on my user page. Probably best to put this sort of this on the user:talk pages (like this one) rather than the user page. Ref what should be on the year pages this is a long debate and my ideas appear to be minority. I think there is way to much information on them and perhaps they should be turned into category pages. --][[user talk:BozMo\|\|talk]] 21:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

			=={{article\|George Washington}}==
			The article was just fine as it was, stop changing it--] 06:10, 4 January 2006 (UTC)