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There should be an option on preferences to allow dates linked as [[July 21]] to
appear as plain text. This would make date formatting much more seamless and
elegant.

I think the option should be a series of radio buttons, like this:

Dates should be rendered as:
(o) Not Linked.
( ) Linked.
( ) Linked only on first appearance in article.

Of course the text could be different.