theProject wrote:
[...] Just looking through some of our featured articles, some things jump out at me immediately. For example, from [[Hero of Ukraine]]: "Since the technical scientist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borys_PatonBorys Paton first received the title in 1998, 170 people have been awarded the title." One also sees phrases like "very recently" and "in recent years ..." used in [[Quantum computer]] and [[Swastika]].
You didn't notice the smiley face? Writing in the present tense as if nothing will ever change is a little bit of sloppiness that everybody is guilty of sooner or later. We've long had a style page somewhere that talks about all this. Feel free to fix any you see, dunno if there's any way to automate detection and/or improvement.
I note that we have some distinguished company, in that many of the 1911 EB articles do the same thing; a number of times I fixed up that kind of wording as part of importing the old article.
Stan