Template talk:Datelink

This template provides a link to the English Wikipedia section about a date. It works for dates from 1 July 2006 (for dates before that the format is different).

Examples:

Due to the "hidden external link" backlinks can be found, e.g.: March 2007

Oddly, on the English Wikipedia itself w:Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates_containing_a_month_and_a_dayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates_containing_a_month_and_a_day seems to say that for the benefit of autoformatting the link targets have to be the year and the month/day combination, not the year/month or year/month/day combination. This means that it takes at least two steps to arrive at the latter targets.

To go to a year/month/day combination:

  • first go to the month/day combination, e.g. w:April 2
  • follow the link "2007 (Monday)" in the section "2 April in recent years".

Alternatively:

  • follow the link "2007" to w:2007
  • follow the link "Apr"
  • follow the link "2" in the calender

To go to a year/month combination:

  • if no date of the month is given no autoformatting is possible anyway, so a link to the year/month combination can be, and is often, supplied
  • if the date of the month is given we need two steps again

See also

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