  == Wikipedia:Date_formatting_and_linking_poll/Autoformatting_responses ==  Regarding your comment in support of your opposition to date autoformatting, I'd like to make it clear that date autoformatting and date autolinking are two completely different issues.  It's currently possible (thanks to a recently installed patch by ) to autoformat dates without linking them, and other suggested alternatives would also allow for autoformatting without autolinking — or with it, as specifiable by a separate user preference.    