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==Rapidly dated information==
I think it's utterly pointless to include information that is ''guaranteed'' to be out of date quickly. Saying that development was still proceding as of September, 2004 is effectively a statement that will need to be updated every single month (assuming that development really is continuing). Giving the version number of the last release is again another piece of information that is likely to need to be updated. What useful purpose does this information serve? For example, what information does "version 4.2.1" provide to the reader? The article doesn't bother to give any additional information about Self's version history. To someone who's not already quite familiar with Self's development, "version 4.2.1" is just a meaningless number. It's worth noting that this kind of information is against [[Wikipedia:Avoid statements that will date quickly|policy]].
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Sorry, this is only the case if you say "now is version x.y". Simply change it to "Version x.y was released on a-b-2007" and it is fine. anyone can add future versions then and it will result in a version history. This works fine for so many software prducts in wikipedia.--[[User:87.78.245.247|87.78.245.247]] 20:27, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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When it comes to the state of development, I think it is fine to just say "Self is still under active development", or some statement to that effect -- that presents about as much information as the article currently does and won't need to be updated until the statement itself is false (i.e. when development on Self stops). As for the version number, I think we ought to get rid of it entirely, for the reasons stated above. [[User:Neilc|Neilc]] 08:22, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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