Sorry about the length of this Like everything else connected with organizing Wikipedia the decisionmaking process on this is confusing difficult and a bit obscure but I did engage in discussions on this kind of thing on several pages Please see WikipediaManual of Style dates and numbersDate Linking RFCYearinField links should be made in certain cases where I commented and YearinField links in tables and lists are just fine but should be identified a proposal I made to try to get a show of support for this which I think is already allowed in the guidelines I also discussed the matter on a page with an editor who had removed the links at List of Canadian poets which I restored   Now I may be missing something here because as I say its confusing but I think Im covered consensus on that RfC page seems to be not to make these things stricter and consensus also seems to be that the kind of thing Im doing is not disallowed not that people are commenting on my edits but on these types of edits If you think otherwise please let me know Id appreciate hearing about what you think on this The impression I get from both WPEGG is that these kinds of links are not wanted for prose but that for lists and tables hidden links are acceptable under the guidelines but subject to consensus on individual cases which seems to make sense to me There are a number of MOS pages  which I find are difficult to locate oftentimes You almost need to be a lawyer to interpret some of this stuff but it seems to boil down to what it says at WPEGG Id appreciate what you think about this too   By the way did you mean to say you disagree with the yearinpoetry links or agree with them on the List of Australian poets page Please take a look at what Im doing at the List of Canadian poets page which is what Im planning for the Australia page Ive done the same thing with the Bengali poets section on the List of Indian poets page My reason for doing this is that someone who cant remember the name of a particular poet but does recall something about that poet can use these lists to figure out more about the poet The yearinpoetry links help a bit with that but mostly they help people who want to learn more about the context of the poet often of more than one poet It allows quicker navigation for someone interested in say Australian poetry to find out more about what else was going on in poetry worldwide at a particular time who the contemporaries were of some poets and do it in some detail I think at any level of interest from the casual browser to the scholar these pages are going to have some use as navigational aids If I thought consensus on the RfC was going against what I was doing Id stop so again if you have reason to believe it is it would help me if you could show me why Thanks for your note