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The preference settings that a registered user can choose are displayed in the second row. The year and the day-month combination are wikilinked separately, except for dates in the ISO 8601 format. Full date formats not found in the first column are not autoformatted when wikilinked, and are likely to produce a redlink; for instance,
I can clearly take away the following three things from the RFC: 1) People want to deprecate dates linked purely for auto formatting. 2) People would like some form of auto formatting (the caveat being that it addresses many/most of the problems in the old system). 3) People think date links are appropriate "sometimes".
Auto-formatting is evil (an essay in user space enumerating the reasons via succinct bullet points) WP: Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information; Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll – 2009 request for comment regarding autoformatting and date linking.
Note that, according to MOS:DATEUNIFY, dates in citations can be a different format from dates in the text as long as the citation date format is consistent and follows the rules in MOS:DATEUNIFY, even when a dates template specifies a specific article style. Automated date formatting tools generally do not account for this potential difference.
I generally don't like auto-formatting, but on the other hand, I think that existing auto-format should be removed gradually, as paragraphs, sentences and phrases are edited for other reasons, rather than have robots like Lightmouse systematically remove all the auto-formats from—for one example—New York City articles.
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