theProject wrote:
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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_Paton>Borys 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