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==Preferred style: use precise language==

Unless you are writing on pages that are regularly refactoredamended, such as [[current events]], you should avoid statements that will date quickly. Phrases to avoidExamples include "recently", "in modern times", "now considered", "is soon to become", and "the sixties"; instead use phrases such as "as of October 2001" or "the 1960s." In many cases, such statements are also more precise.

Your words should make sense to a reader six months or fifty years into the future. Precise language will not sound dated if the article is never edited again.

Imagine someone is reading your words in six months, five, ten, fifty years. Will they still make sense?

Using precise language that will not sound dated if the article is never edited again is considered the best practice.

==Another option==