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