Just to be clear, in many cases I personally added a link pair like "[[July 4]], [[1976 in radio|1976]]" to an article so 1) I created that link pair, 2) I did not realize that it broke autoformatting, and 3) I acknowledge that date autoformatting is now deprecated and is being removed by the bot.  Also to be clear, Lightbot is converting my example above to "[[July 4]], [[1976]]" which 1) created a new yet deprecated autoformatted date link pair and 2) removes the useful, on topic link to 1976 in radio.  Given that there is no consensus for an urgent removal of date autoformatting, I'm simply asking that the bot not undo "date in radio" links if it can't, as you note, handle them properly. -