User talk:Eric Albert

~ UDScott 13:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Why'd you de-Wikify the year in "Francine Prose" in Wikiquote?
You wrote:
 * I was curious why you changed the year of her birth from being a Wikipedia reference to being just text. Personally, I find the Wikifying of every mention of a year in 'pedia and 'quote to be peculiar, but it does seem to be the "standard," and was done on every 'quote page I looked at as models before creating this one. Eric Albert 07:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * In this case, I think it was simply an oversight. I don't really have a problem with the wikifying of dates, but there really doesn't seem to be a standard way of doing it. The people template does not include it, and I've seen various formats for it. I generally don't use them, so that's probably why I did it here. I just meant to add that she was born in 1947, rather than just have the year there by itself. ~ UDScott 13:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Philip Larkin
You write:
 * Before, the Month-Day combos were linked to Wikiquote pages, and the Years were linked to Wikipedia pages. Now, the Month-Day combos are linked to the same Wikiquote pages, and the Years are linked to nothing. How is this an improvement?
 * Using internal links for dates enables MediaWiki's date-format preferences. If any of the components of the date are not internal links, dates will not be formatted correctly.  See Help:Preferences for details.  121a0012 03:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S.: sorry for the delay in answering your question, but I broke my knee a week ago and have been laid up. 121a0012 03:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)