[OLPC library] style guide: avoid "currently", and date "will"

[Samuel Klein]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:16 AM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:


>  There are 2000 pages on
> wiki.laptop.org using the word "currently". There are 6000 with the word
> "will".  Any mention of the present or future on a wiki page is DEADLY.
> I added "Write for posterity: avoid "currently", and date "will" " to
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Style_guide
>

This definitely needs to be a guideline.   "As of <date>, <statement>" is a
concise fix.

SJ
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