[WikiEN-l] The present tense

[Stan Shebs]

theProject wrote:
> So the Canadian government had a cabinet shuffle today, and just like that,
> twenty pages became outdated. About ten articles that said something along
> the lines of "the current minister is ..." needed to be changed, and
> infoboxes and succession boxes also needed to be updated. This kind of thing
> happens once every year or so (sometimes more often, sometimes less often),
> so is it at all possible to limit the amount of time Wikipedia spends in the
> present tense? Would it be difficult to use phrases like "as of 2007" more
> often?
>   
You mean everybody isn't doing that already?

1/2 :-)

Stan