Hi Jerzy, I am sorry, but I am having trouble following your logic above. I don't want to be dogmatic about this; for me it is strictly a practical matter. I use the As of primarily for temporary situations, and by temporary I mean a few months, or for example, when I refer to something taking place within a half year, such as the publication of a book. In principal it could also be used in this and many other places, but let's not abuse the thing. If you look at Special:Whatlinkshere&target;=As_of_2003, you will see that there on the order of five hundred links which haven't updated. If there are two or three thousand I assure you no one is going to check them all. If HM published a new edition every three months, I would wholehartedly agree, but we are talking about eight to ten years. Hence, the text As of 2004, it remains the current edition. is going to go out of date far sooner than is necessary. Simply listing the fourth edition and its publication date is IMO quite sufficient.
As for current and most recent, I would have thought that they were virtually synonmous in this context; perhaps you could explain to me what the difference is.   11:41, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)