Wikipedia:Date_formatting_and_linking_poll/Autoformatting_responses 

Regarding your comments in opposition of date autoformatting, I'd like to make it clear that date autoformatting and date autolinking are two different issues.  They're currently interconnected by the use of the bracket syntax around dates, but a recently-installed patch also allows for date autoformatting without linking, and other proposed solutions similarly disentangle the two issues.