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Stand alone years do not need to be linked but some users prefer it, and some users prefer to link (with a piped link) to articles formatted as "year in subject" such as 1441 in art, 1982 in film, and 18th century in United States history. Dates in section headers should generally not be linked. Do not link dates inside quotations.
Month-and-day articles (e.g. February 24 and 10 July) and year articles (e.g. 1795, 1955, 2007) should not be linked unless the linked date or year has a significant connection to the subject of the linking article, beyond that of the date itself, so that the linking enhances the reader's understanding of the subject. For example:
Year articles (e.g. 1795, 1955, and 2007) should not be linked on Wikipedia unless the year is particularly relevant to the subject of the linking article; that is, an seminal event relevant to the subject of the article occured in that year. Examples may include the birth and death of a person and the establishment and disestablishment of an ...
The extent of linking is such that it is off putting. I'm not convinced that linking dates improves the knowledge of the reader anyway. Then we have the problem where dates aren't even linked correctly, this has to be corrected by another user. The pro's of linking dates do not out way the con's. — Realist 2 23:03, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
However, if you do not want to retain links to the old names, you will need to track them down and fix them. There is no separate What links here feature for sections: the list does not distinguish between links to one section or another and links to the entire page. The following possible workarounds will help "future proof" incoming links you ...
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Many date-linkers are not suggesting going to a page like 1345, instead, they are suggesting linking to a page that pretty much gives a list of events that occurred during a year, such as 2008. (The date-linkers also find it necessary to link to things like 1 Jan —a pointless link in my humble opinion.)
The poll will commence on 30 March 2009 and will run for two weeks. Users are encouraged to review the proposals and vote in all three sections: Autoformatting, Month-day linking, and Year linking. After the poll has closed, there will be a two-week period for discussion.