--- theProject wp.theproject@gmail.com wrote:
Basically, my issue is with pages that contain statements that may be *directly* false in the future. (Omission of facts that may be true in the future is, of course, completely expected.) So instead of "Person X is the CEO of ABC Company, Inc.", or even "as of 2006, Person X is the CEO of ABC Company, Inc.", we'd write instead, "as of 2006, Person X was the CEO of ABC Company, Inc." Even if X is no longer the CEO of ABC sometime down the road, that statement -- as of 2006, he WAS the CEO -- is still true.
I don't think there's any one solution to this (sometimes using "is" is quite reasonable), but another option is to simply bypass the issue of the present, and go with something like "person X was appointed CEO in May 2006".
-- Matt
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