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states that years ("1795") and month-day combinations ("February 24") should not be linked unless their target article content is germane and topical to the subject of the article with the link. Such links should share an important connection with that subject other than that the events occurred on
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dates by using links, a practice that is no longer recommended on the
English Knowledge. Removing all the double square brackets manually would be slow and tedious; an automatic process (a bot) should remove them in a carefully controlled way. The arbitration committee has recently determined that
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with this at a later time.) Articles will be added to the list after manual review; there should be no indiscriminate mass additions of articles to the exclusion list. The list will be openly editable for one month before the bot starts running.
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The bot operator will be responsive and polite to anyone who has questions or complaints about the bot. He/she will not be someone who has edit-warred or been uncivil in relation to date links, or has been sanctioned as a result of the
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I am sorry that the community is presented with another RfC on date links. This is needed because of disagreement over the implementation of a previous RfC.
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Each article will be edited only once by the bot while performing this task. If an edit is reverted the article will not be retreated by the bot.
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If a problem is discovered, or the bot operator is unable to keep up with questions, the bot will be paused until the issues are resolved.
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The bot user page and talk page will describe its task and function in clear, neutral and respectful language.
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that the community strongly favors deprecating the system of autoformatting that was introduced in 2003.
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any process of mass delinking should first be approved by the community.
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The bot will unlink only day-month-year (triple) combinations such as:
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