Wikipedia:As of : As of 2001
Some articles have information that is valid only for a specific moment in history. If you suspect that the article will become significantly out of date in years to come, and want to ensure that people will update it, please include a link [[as of nnnn]], with year of validity. That way, it will be easy to find articles with possibly outdated information. More detailed tags are possible, and perhaps even sometimes desirable since all such pages can be located by checking "What links here" for this page. However, the year will generally be sufficient and is desirable for simplicity's sake. For more information, please visit Talk:As of 2003.Paul A's talk page also has a useful statement on the usefulness of this page:
- Hi Paul. I noticed in Blade Runner that you reverted 2003 back to as of 2003. I just wondered what the logic was, since the latter is a redirect to the former anyway. I'm not going to get into an edit war on something so minor, just curious. (Although as a Brit, the American usage grates a bit anyway) jimfbleak 06:38 21 May 2003 (UTC)
- The reasoning, as it was explained to me when I asked someone else the same question, is that there is a fundamental difference between "In 2003, something happened" and "As of 2003, something was the case" - namely, that when 2004 rolls around all the former will still be true, but the latter will need updating. Making "as of 2003" a link means that, in years to come, it will be relatively easy to find pages that need updating by seeing what links to [[as of 2003 (http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=As_of_2003)]]. (Just as, this year, one can find pages that need updating by seeing what links to as of 2002, as of 2001, etc.)
- Each "as of x" page was made a redirect to the corresponding year page because the page needed to have some kind of content, and nobody could think of anything better at the time.
- -- Paul A 09:16 21 May 2003 (UTC)
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nothing done in the Navy without me. His going, I hear, is upon putting
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will be here this afternoon and desires me to be with him. So the Duke
and there found Sarah all alone in the house . . . . So away to the
me to the observation of all that are there. At dinner comes Sir G.
Carteret, who tells me that my Lord hath received still worse and worse
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thoughts of, for, if the Exchequer should succeede in this, his office
want of trade, no money will be got upon a new way which few understand.
meet the Vice-Chamberlayne to-morrow at Nonesuch, to treat with Sir
by a hackney coach; the first I have durst to go in many a day, and with
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open, here and there twenty in a place almost; though not above five or
found him at the Pope's Head, drinking with Temple. I to them, where the
Exchequer, and paid out thence, saying they will not advance one farthing
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at nine at night, comes to us Sir G. Smith and the Lieutenant of the
mighty merry we were, the Lieutenant of the Tower being in a mighty vein
of skill. Sir G. Smith shewed me his lady's closett, which was very
mighty highly treated, the first time I have lain in London a long time.
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