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Does Wikipedia allow for an article to change its tense from "is" to "will have been" before it reaches "was"?
by dmonitor 2y ago
Does Wikipedia allow for an article to change its tense from "is" to "will have been" before it reaches "was"?
- dredmorbius 2y agoThe article presently notes in its lede 'graph that the service "will be discontinued at the end of 2024". Which works for me. I've seen several similar pending-shutdown notices for other sites/services.
- floren 2y agoWell it sounds like a lot of work to turn a readable and correct article (since it still "is" all of those things) into a very tortuous if somewhat slightly more technically-correct version... so I assume there are already half a dozen bots and obsessive Wikipedia users devoted to doing just that.
- codetrotter 2y agoCurrent intro of Wikipedia article: > Cohost (stylized in all lowercase letters as cohost or cohost!) is a social media website publicly launched in June 2022[1] that is currently in beta, and will be discontinued at the end of 2024[2]. And right you were!
- SahAssar 2y agoIf that was the case wouldn't the same be true for basically any physical thing? > The universe was (and perhaps was not), is, will be for the foreseeable future (of which the timespan is indeterminate) and might become (with perhaps a period of not being) all of space and time and their contents. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe