User:Tony1/RfCs on dates

RfC in question: No. 1

Definite opponents of deprecation

25 users, including one retired

• Locke Cole
• Tennis expert
• Stifle
• Pixelface
• Arthur Rubin
• Ckatz
• BillCJ
• Coemgenus
• SatyrTN
• Nja247
• Avi
• Jeandré
• Frabrictramp
• JulesH
• WWGB
• Deb
• Hateless
• Fabrictramp
• Tohd8BohaithuGh1
• Rebecca [but now retired]
• Kaizer13
• CastAStone
• Sapphic
• Rumping
• EdwinHJ

"Oppose", but significantly influenced by the "patch about to be implemented" argument

17 users

• Scott5114 (let's have the developers implement some other kind of markup so that we can keep date autoformatting without needing to link.)
• Keith D (there should be a software change to enable dates to be formatted consistently for all non logged in user or registered user who do not set a date format preference. This will prevent edit warring on articles and having to format dates in a consistent manner throughout the text as all linked dates will be formatted for all users. The software change should also enable autoformatted dates not to show as links by some change to mark-up.)
• J Clear (until such time as a non-linking auto-format option is deployed)
• Ntsimp (Until a better autoformatting solution is in place, we should continue using the one we have)
• lucasbrf ((While I appreciate the concerns on autoformating (that is mainly that logged in users might not see inconsistencies in articles), I believe this is a useful feature that (if improved a bit) enhances the user experience (especially since many articles are in a gray area regarding their fate formatting). I am not concerned over overlinking.)
• Nihonjoe (As the patch has been developed, it seems it would be more useful to fix the issue rather than remove extremely useful links from articles)
• Beagel (Before removing date links, please provide any alternative (and, of course, better) system for dates autoformatting)
• Andrew Kelly (If a linkless auto-formatting feature is introduced in the future, perhaps it could be set up in such a way that individual users could decide if they want dates linked or not by changing their preferences.) [Subsequent comments indicate confusion with chronological linking]
• CrispMuncher (... That way it will be far easier to make the change (even automatic) when linkless dates are added.)
• Ezhiki (Once a better solution is available, then it would be a different matter entirely. [comment seems confused])
• Nichalp (Instead of creating a hyperlinked text, I'm sure mediawiki can create a plain text without any link for dates.)
• Tkynerd (I strongly support the development of a better system to do date autoformatting)
• Operibus anteire (Once someone comes up with a better solution, then we should keep the status quo.)
• Rjstott (talks of "the yet to be invented feature")
• G-Man (appears confused: "It would be nice if a way was devised to auto link to do it without repitition of the same links, which seemed to be a flaw of the older system")
• brighterorange (When we have some better markup to replace it, or some alternative way of displaying it, that will be great.)
• Medest Genius (... until some other method of autoformatting is developed)

Opposes, but confusion with linking to chronological pages

7 users

• Guy Peters (Sometimes, I wish to know about other events in that date.)
• Mizu onna sango15 [Date links make it easier to find occurrences by year]
• GlassCobra [and not a strong oppose on date-autoformatting]
• UC_Bill (Date links are useful to readers because they allow quick access to date pages, which are themselves useful for historical research)
• Daytrivia (the linked dates can be very useful and even expand the depth of research when needed)
• Elbutler (What's the point of creating days and years articles if we're not going to link to them)
• Captainpanda (More links make it easier to get around a wiki. I often click on the links and I would rather not copy and paste every time I want to go the year's article.)

"Oppose", but otherwise showing confusion

1 user

• Ephebi: confusion about consistency in raw formatting

Neutral, but should be counted as Support

• Edmund Patrick (Neutral because I am against auotformatting - they should be like choices of which English to use subject/country or editor specific. Neutral because I am for the removal of day, month, year dates which are only linked because they are dates)