easing restriction in baby steps ok i understand your post on my talk page i have no intention of persisting at making edits pertaining to date linking notably the rfc on bot it was not my intention to be testing the limits i genuinely thought that style guides and related discussions meant mosnum and its talk page where all that drama unfolded my point which i made here on krill s talk page is that i have made many conflict free contributions to mosnum on issues not related to date linking it seems the project s interests in avoiding conflict will be perfectly met by simply restricting me from participation in anything to do with date linking regardless of where it is on wikipedia period my other contributions on mosnum projects such as the template please note my collaborative work on val it was originally called delimitnum and had its functionality described here on archive and it was extensively discussed and voted upon a bit lower also here on archive on wt mosnum and it was well received here on wt mos archive where its functionality tweaked to a compromise that received broad acceptance i created a main testing sandbox is which i made for the template writers to use this is all examples of the kind of work i do when the topic isn't the vitriolic date linking delinking