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==Preferred style: use precise language==
Unless you are writing on pages that are regularly amended, such as [[current events]], avoid statements that will date quickly. Examples 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.
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