On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
The usual solution is to use templates to flag up outdated material for editors to review and check things did happen, and to issue the needed corrections and updates.
Exactly. Its quaint. Tagging specific forecasts as temporal takes what is a lazy eventualistic, let-someone-else-do-it process and signals that specific outdated language (and its outdated reference) need updating.
Wikis are all about eventualistic processes. It's kind of the point.
That said, automatic notification of people who care that a statement has become stale is useful. Perhaps this could set a special flag in watchlists?
I'm against the idea of automatically updating content for the reason that it's assuming the prediction in the article about a future event is true and actually happened as predicted.
-Matt