"Examples Are Not Recent" and vague dates cleanup thread

Because "A Cleanup Thread for Examples with 'Recently' and Other Related Relative Fuzzy Vague Dates" is a mouthful.

Anyway, this very wiki has a problem with this kind of writing, with writers not knowing of the policy of Examples Are Not Recent, most likely with new episodes of shows they're gushing about. "Recently", or any other related Word Cruft of that manner, could be timely today, but it would be outdated tomorrow.

After witnessing the edits on Pirate and Unacceptable Targets having these kinds of examples (Pirate had "recent" examples that ranged from 2008 to 2011), and asking on ATT on whether we have this kind of cleanup, and with 11 upvotes but no comments, and assuming there's surprisingly none, I'm perhaps obliged to start one.

This thread shall be for reporting and revising examples with relative dates to absolute dates.

So, yeah.

From Manga.Chatting At The Amber Teahouse:

• Will They or Won't They?: Sarasa and Seriho. Recently, they've gone on a date as of chapter 12. Still waiting to see if it goes anywhere. At least one of them admits to loving the other. A recent drama CD called White Engage makes it official that their recent actions, including exchange of matching rings, make them tantamount to fiancées in the eyes of the world (or at least Miyabi Fujieda's world).

Thanks for dusting this one. That manga had finished in 2012, so I would assume they went stable by the time the manga wrapped up, so that would be rewritten.

Hmmm, since there's no context regarding the on-and-off part of the trope, should we replace it with this?

• Relationship Upgrade: Sarasa and Seriho start dating in chapter 12 after a period of uncertainty.

That would work

I found this in Western Animation:

The episode in question aired in 2020, one year before the show ended. Any suggestions?

The Recap page has a lot of cutlisted episode pages, so I'm not sure what particular episode it is.

It could be written as

It's this one.

You could refer that one. 👍🏽

VideoGame.Dead Pixels has this in the description:

Since 2019 is four years ago, this needs to be fixed.

Was that game ever released?

MustHaveCaffeine.Real Life has an entry that boasts both apparent abuse of "recent," and improper indentation:

• Given that caffeine has been legally available for a longer period of time than most other drugs and has spent a much longer amount of time being considered socially acceptable (thanks to it being extremely mild compared to other stimulants), it's not too uncommon to find people who practically run on nothing but the stuff, typically in the form of coffee or energy drinks. Chances are pretty good that even you, dear reader, may be one of those people.
  • That being said, it is possible to have too much. In recent decades, caffeine pills and energy drinks with ever higher contents of caffeine (sometimes multiple times the amount typically found in cups of coffee) have resulted in dependency, and even overdoses. Consumption of 5,000 mg in one day can cause intoxication. The median lethal dose (LD50) is 150-200 mg per kilogram of body weight, equivalent to 75-100 cups of coffee. Very unlikely to be reached by the average person, but attainable with oversupplementation. People who are sensitive to caffeine could suffer cardiac issues if they consume too much.

That needs an overhaul. Like merging those two and nipping them, while also removing the "recent" examples.

According to Steam, it does seem to exist, but there's no definite ETA aside from "coming soon".

Checking the dev's Twitter, last game-related post was September 2022. There was a post with a gif in Dec '22, but that was too vague.

Edit: Changed that line to the following; once we have a known ETA, that can be posted:

Edited by Berrenta on Jun 2nd 2023 at 10:33:27 AM

That works.

Not sure when was that research researched?

I fixed the Al Capone entry in the Other folder in Short-Lived, Big Impact myself. It now has the actual dates of the events.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Jun 3rd 2023 at 5:36:38 AM

~/@dsneybuf do you have any ideas to rewrite this? Because I got nothing so far.

Found this on YMMV.The Legend Of Heroes Trails Into Reverie

• A bug in the initial English release broke links completely for characters who weren't playable in Cold Steel IV on all platforms. This means that some characters aren't able to pull off certain abilities like "Cover"^note Ally blocks an attack for the linked person, "Cheer"^note Restore a certain amount of HP, or "Arts Support"^note Increase the damage of the art cast by the art user. to name a few, breaking certain strategies that are used for beating the game at higher difficulties. According to Durante, this actually came up during the QA session but was not fixed for release. Fan fixes are already available for the PC version of the game, however there is no official fix yet, and due to tighter security on consoles preventing fan fixes, console users (as well as PC users who don't want to use fan patches) are still stuck waiting for a fix.

I feel like this violates the rule because, as of right now, we are still waiting for the bug fixes. So any possible rewrite to make it less dated (so to speak)?

Definitely a rewrite if there are fixes or not.

Update: The PC's issues got fixed with the consoles left now. Entry has been updated accordingly (though not by me). What do you think the rewrite should be or should we just hide it until further notice.

If there's no updated information, hide it for now, with an added message to unhide it if there is a confirmed update.

So, I was checking this out while browsing Combat Pragmatist.

As far as I know, "No Time to Die" was Mr. Craig's final role as Bond, and there are talks of recasting. I'm set on rewriting this, but let me hear your input first.

Edited by alnair20aug93 on Aug 29th 2023 at 5:37:00 PM

Yeah, I think something like "Daniel Craig's incarnation of Bond..." and "previous Bonds" instead of "other Bonds" should futureproof it?

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 29th 2023 at 10:43:37 AM

That makes sense to me.