Wikipedia:As of : As of 2003
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 If you suspect that the article will become significantly out of date in years to come, and want to ensure that people will update it, please include a link [[as of nnnn]], with year of validity. That way, it will be easy to find articles with possibly outdated information.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)
against the highwayman. Tennessee was hunted in very much the same
him, he made a desperate dash through the Bar, emptying his
Grizzly Canyon; but at its farther extremity he was stopped by a
in silence. Both were fearless, both self-possessed and
seventeenth century would have been called heroic, but, in the
said Tennessee, quietly. "Two bowers and an ace," said the
"That takes me," returned Tennessee; and with this gamblers'
captor.
the going down of the sun behind the chaparral-crested mountain was
stifling with heated resinous odors, and the decaying driftwood on
of day, and its fierce passions, still filled the camp. Lights
reflection from its tawny current. Against the blackness of the
out staringly bright; and through their curtainless panes the
deciding the fate of Tennessee. And above all this, etched on the
with remoter passionless stars.
The trial of Tennessee was conducted as fairly as was consistent
justify, in their verdict, the previous irregularities of arrest
vengeful. The excitement and personal feeling of the chase were
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principles, they indulged him with more latitude of defense than
more anxious than the prisoner, who, otherwise unconcerned,
created. "I don't take any hand in this yer game," had been his
was also his captor--for a moment vaguely regretted that he had not
human weakness as unworthy of the judicial mind. Nevertheless,
Partner was there on behalf of the prisoner, he was admitted at
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