[WikiEN-l] Temporal tags and outdating

[geni]

On 19 May 2010 00:04, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [[WP:V]] says no. The use of the wrong tense has the additional
>> benefit in that it instantly indicates that there is something that
>> needs updating here.
>
> You assume that such errors are good, just because they are obvious.
> While I respect your uberterseness, you miss the point that these are
> errors which are not always obvious and therefore go undetected. You
> also miss the point that "date" here refers not just to tenses, but to
> any context where language refers to future events. That such events
> often do not come is one objection, but it does not to my mind rise to
> become an issue of V.
>
> So what in V would prohibit date-based tense or context switches?
>
> -SC
>

Because at best you have a source that something is expected to happen
at a future date. you do not have a source saying it actually has
happened and thus a tense change leads to misrepresenting the source.


-- 
geni