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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of time are preferred to relative constructions using recently currently and so on because the latter may go out of date by september 2026 contributions had dropped has the same meaning as recently contributions have dropped but the first sentence retains its meaning as time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 clear such as joe bloggs in 2007 called it one of the best books of the last decade when material in an article may become out of date follow the wikipedia as of guideline which allows information to be written in a less time dependent way f there are also several templates for alerting readers to time sensitive wording problems g expressions like former in the past and traditionally lump together unspecified periods in the past traditional is particularly pernicious because it implies immemorial established usage it is better to use explicit dates supported by sources instead of hamburgers are a traditional american food say the hamburger was invented in about 1900 and became widely popular in the united states in the 1930s h similarly phrases such as in recent years or in modern times should be reworded to a more specific time or period as far as can be determined from the sources such as since the 1990s or in the mid 2010s i if there are no sources or the sources do not 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time of death or for inheritance purposes but an encyclopedia article covers the subject s entire life not just their death and information about children and spouses might be presented in an infobox or in sections about the subject s personal life from such information readers can generally infer which family members died after the subject so this information is not usually worth highlighting explicitly except in unusual situations such as when children predecease their parents or an inheritance is disputed even in a stub article a different arrangement with more details sounds more like an encyclopedia and less like an obituary smith married jack in 1957 the couple had two sons she died in 1982 note also that to say survived by two children doesn t prove that the subject only had two children she might have had others who predeceased her if so obits will usually add a third child died in infancy whether a lack of mention of predeceasing children is sufficient for us to indicate that there weren t any is beyond the scope of this rule as of april 2026 update about 14 900 articles required copyediting to fix this language person or office shortcut mos personoroffice mos personoroffice see also wikipedia manual of style biography positions offices and occupational titles it is necessary for a reference work to distinguish carefully between an office and an incumbent a newspaper does not usually need to make this distinction for a newspaper president x and the president are one and the same during x s presidency president x nominates new justices of the us supreme court no whoever is us president at the time does president george w bush nominated john roberts as chief justice yes as this will always be true the president nominated john roberts as chief justice in 2005 yes as the year makes this clear the guest list included charles prince of wales this is usually acceptable for events between charles iii s creation as prince of wales in 1958 and his accession to the 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out to be contentious e g lesbian and transgender imply the longer words lesbianism and transgenderism which are sometimes taken as offensive for seeming to imply a belief system or agenda for additional guidance on ist ism terms see contentious labels above easily confused terms shortcuts mos confuse mos confuse mos arab mos arab do not use similar or related words in a way that blurs meaning or is incorrect or distorting for example the adjective arab refers to people and things of ethnic arab origin the term arabic generally refers to the arabic language or writing system and related concepts arabian relates to the arabian peninsula or historical arabia these terms are all capitalized e g arabic script and arabian horse aside from a few conventionalized exceptions that have lost their cultural connection such as gum arabic do not substitute these terms for islamic muslim islamist middle eastern etc a muslim arab is someone who is both arab and muslim further information wikipedia 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compromised due to out of date information see also wikiproject food and drink on original traditional authentic and other distracting terminology however traditional has permissible usage as a term of art in particular disciplines including folklore studies and cultural anthropology a traditional song of jamaica as opposed to a modern composition of known authorship a traditional religious practice of the penitentes of northern new mexico dating to the conquistador era in contrast to a matter of codified roman catholic doctrinal practice given that such descriptions often reflect the time in which editors have been writing since wikipedia s launch in 2001 more fitting descriptions often include by the early 21st century since the early 2000s or in the 2010s and 2020s references see e g gowers ernest 1954 the complete plain words be short be simple be human the national federation of the blind for instance opposes terms such as sightless in favor of the straightforward blind similarly the same group argues there is no need to substitute awkward circumlocutions such as people with blindness for the simpler phrase blind people see resolution 93 01 national federation of the blind july 9 1993 accessed april 26 2010 external links the elements of style words and expressions commonly misused v t e manual of style overview contents tips content accessibility biography disambiguation pages organizing by subject area hidden text infoboxes linking self references words to watch formatting abbreviations capitalization dates and numbers pronunciation spelling superscripts and subscripts text formatting titles of works images captions image placement icons images layout layout lead section tables trivia sections lists lists lists of works road junctions stand alone lists by topic area arts anime and manga comics film lyrics and poetry novels television video games visual arts writing about fiction see also wikiproject style advice music music music samples record charts 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