[WikiEN-l] Temporal tags and outdating

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:09 AM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That's an interesting compromise.

It's actually a refutation of your position (as were all the other
posts pointing out that automatic updating is a bad idea), but if you
want to call it a compromise, fair enough. :-)

Carcharoth