On 04/01/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
You make a valid point, but I don't know if there is a general solution at all. The example from the Canadian cabinet shuffle is the kind that is likely to be fixed quickly. Nevertheless there are many more articles where this will pass unnoticed. Articles about schools often name the principal of the school, and I doubt that there is any mechanism for updating these as needed.
I think the present tense wording is preferable to "As of...". Perhaps articles with present tense wording could be placed in a metacategory similar in function to [[Category:Living persons]]. If this is done using a template perhaps a field would also indicate when the information will no longer be correct in the present.