User:Greg L/Delinking links

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

RfCs

• Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll (The current RfC)
• 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")
• MOSNUM: Date Linking RFC (Locke’s RfC - "RfC 2")
• 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)
• User:Kendrick7/Summary of the Date Linking RFCs (Kendrick7's analysis)

Arbitration

• Notification of arbitration
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking
• 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
  • 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)

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
• Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Announcing_Free_text_time_templates

Bots

• Lightbot 3
• Lightbot 2
• Lightbot 1

Brain explosions

• 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)
• Ohconfucius using anonymous IP accounts to evade a block (5-7 March 2009), resulting in another block after a Checkuser was performed (8 March 2009) and then even more block evasion with an anonymous IP account (17 March 2009)

Other links of interest

• Block logs for: LC, TE, AR, UCB, OC, CC, D8.
• User:Ohconfucius/Tennis_wars (Summary of the enormous number of revert-type links made by TE)
• Enormous tag team edit warring by certain date delinkers
• Disruption by OC
• CC delinking edit warring
• D8 delinking edit warring
• SW delinking edit warring
• TRM delinking edit warring and disruptive behavior, despite the fact that he is a bureaucrat
• 2O delinking edit warring
• T1 edit warring, incivility, yet more unconstructive behavior, and (need another synonym here for incivility)
• GL incivility, rudeness, and other unconstructive behavior

List of Fuck-tards

Many thanks for the inspirational help from Earle Martin to give our group a proper name.

• Greg L (talk)