My view is that there is history and there is the present History includes the present and thus any article that discusses history should also discuss the present as the endpoint of history but the discussion of the present should be in the context of history If there are two separate articles discusing history and the present then the history article should discuss the present lightly and the article on the present should discuss history lightly The demarcation between history and the present is hard to define but is roughly that point where significant changes are not found