On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
The usual solution is to use templates to flag up
outdated material
for editors to review and check things did happen, and to issue the
needed corrections and updates.
Exactly. Its quaint. Tagging specific forecasts as temporal takes what
is a lazy eventualistic, let-someone-else-do-it process and signals
that specific outdated language (and its outdated reference) need
updating.
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.
-Matt