Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 11 (section)

== How do I handle transient information?? ==

What do I do with information that is likely to change in the future?  For example, in the [[Chartered financial analyst]] article, I wanted to mention how many there were, and wrote "as of 2004...".  For another example, the article on [[Barak Obama]] starts: "Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician, and U.S. Senator-elect from Illinois." which is clearly only applicable for the moment (as he will soon be a senator, not a senator-elect.

Is there some convention for this sort of thing?  I did not see anything on point in the style guide page.

:[[As of]] is indeed the proper way to handle it., but if at all possible try to avoid time-sensitive sentence constructions alltogether. In the senator-elect example you could mention when the elections he's standing for are. That way future readers will know whether he's still an elect or actually a senator. Also, try to update as soon as new info is available. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm]]|<sup>[[User talk:MacGyverMagic|(talk)]]</sup> 15:43, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)