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MichaelKatsuro Since: Apr, 2011
2020-02-06 20:08:12

Link? Maybe one of us knows enough.

WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-02-06 20:11:14

We have Outdated Pages for administrivia...

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2020-02-06 20:16:38

The Trope Description Improvement Drive comes to mind for non-work pages. Being in need of an update is one reason a trope could need improvement.

Edited by Tabs
ElBuenCuate Since: Oct, 2010
2020-02-06 20:27:58

I was thinking more on changing facts. I think a thread might be useful since information is always changing.

Regarding the pages I found, there is this example in Iron Lady.

* Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, current President of Liberia, and the first elected female leader in Africa. She has to be tough as nails; there's the threat of a coup.

That seems like a Zero-context example, but that's not the point. She is no longer president since 2018. (If you are curious, it has nothing to do with the supposed coup, but her terms simply expired.)

And in French Political System there is this

The council currently has 12 members, with three surviving former Presidents of the Republic : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Not only has a new one joined (François Hollande), but one of the previous guys died already (Chirac).

These examples can be changed, but I still think that a thread might be good.

Edited by ElBuenCuate
crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2020-02-06 21:35:28

The first is covered by Examples Are Not Recent; whenever you find an example worded that way, fix the language before it becomes outdated, please.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2020-02-07 00:05:08

Also, always consider the possibility that you can fix the inaccuracy yourself. This is a wiki.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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