[WikiEN-l] Temporal tags and outdating

[Andrew Gray]

On 19 May 2010 03:59, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Two examples of outdated statements, both spotted whilst browsing last night:

* "In September 2009, he will become chief executive of [the company]."

* "In early 2010, [the NASA facility] will begin preparing to support
the new Constellation program."

In the first case, he did. In the second case, it didn't, because the
program got cancelled. A self-updating text would be fine in the first
half, but quite problematic in the latter.

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- Andrew Gray
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