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ng figure of the 1960s counterculture and a brilliant songwriter just the facts dylan was included in time s 100 the most important people of the century in which he was called master poet caustic social critic and intrepid guiding spirit of the counterculture generation 1 by the mid 1970s his songs had been covered by hundreds of other artists 2 an article suffering from such language should be rewritten to correct the problem or if an editor is unsure how best to make a correction the article may be tagged with an appropriate template such as peacock inline puffery is an example of positively loaded language negatively loaded language should be avoided just as much people responsible for public spending the neutral term can be loaded both ways as tax and spend politicians borrowing off the backs of our grandchildren or public servants ensuring crucial investment in our essential infrastructure for the public good contentious labels shortcuts mos label mos label mos racist mos racist 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text attribution avoid myth in its informal sense and establish the scholarly context for any formal use of the term the prefix pseudo indicates something false or spurious which may be debatable the suffix gate suggests the existence of a scandal use these in articles only when they are in wide use externally e g gamergate with in text attribution if in doubt rather than describing an individual using the subjective and vague term controversial instead give readers information about relevant controversies make sure as well that reliable sources establish the existence of a controversy and that the term is not used to grant a fringe viewpoint undue weight b for the term pseudoscience per the policy wikipedia neutral point of view pseudoscientific views should be clearly described as such per the content guideline wikipedia fringe theories the term pseudoscience if supported by reliable sources may be used to distinguish fringe theories from mainstream science for additional guidance on 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condition to the extent that is relevant and supported by appropriate sources see wikipedia manual of style medicine related articles careful language for more guidance on writing about medical conditions see also mos suicide norms vary for expressions about disabilities and disabled people do not assume that plain language is inappropriate 2 the goal is to express ideas clearly and directly without causing unnecessary offense see also wikipedia wikiproject disability style advice clichés and idioms shortcuts mos cliche mos cliche mos idiom mos idiom words to watch lion s share tip of the iceberg landslide white elephant gild the lily take the plunge ace up the sleeve bird in the hand twist of fate at the end of the day rounded out the top five the likes of clichés and idioms should generally be avoided in favor of direct literal expressions lion s share is often misunderstood and a landslide victory is imprecise instead use a term such as all most two thirds or whatever matches the context the tip of the iceberg should be reserved for discussions of icebergs if something is seen as wasteful excess do not call it gilding the lily or a white elephant instead describe the wasteful thing in terms of the actions or events that led to the excess instead of writing that someone took the plunge state their action matter of factly in general if a literal reading of a phrase makes no sense given the context the sentence needs rewording some idioms are common only in certain parts of the world and many readers are not native speakers of english articles should not presume familiarity with particular phrases wiktionary has a long list of english idioms many of which should be avoided relative time references shortcuts mos reltime mos reltime mos realtime mos realtime see also wikipedia as of precise language and wikipedia manual of style dates and numbers statements likely to become outdated words to watch recently lately currently today presently to date x years ago formerly in the past traditionally this last next year month winter spring summer fall autumn yesterday tomorrow in the future now to this day soon since absolute specifications of time are preferred to relative constructions using recently currently and so on because the latter may go out of date by september 2026 contributions had dropped has the same meaning as recently contributions have dropped but the first sentence retains its meaning as time passes recently type constructions may be ambiguous even at the time of writing was it in the last week month year e the information that the current president alberto fernández took office in 2019 or alberto fernández has been president since 2019 is better rendered alberto fernández became president in 2019 wordings such as 17 years ago or jones is 65 years old should be rewritten as in 2009 jones was 65 years old at the time of the incident or jones was born in 1961 if a direct quote contains relative time ensure the date of the quote is 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