On 19 May 2010 00:04, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > geni <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
