# Talk:Johannes Kaiser (Liechtenstein politician)

@TheBritinator: Please note that on WP we do not use the present tense for people's actions, in biographies. This is because we cannot guarantee that an article will be constantly updated, so that, for example, by the following year that present tense may well be out of date. That is the reason for the edit, "as of 2024 he was". Please do not revert that kind of edit.  Storye book (talk) 10:02, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

I do in fact intend on updating this article. TheBritinator (talk) 10:41, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
That is not the point. We all intend on updating the articles that we created. But WP house style requires that events are recorded in the past tense, because WP cannot rely on all of us remembering to update promptly all of the time. Our audience is reading our articles when we are on holiday and when we are sleeping. It's not about you personally, it's about the principle. See: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Chronological items, and Template:As of. Storye book (talk) 11:46, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
Understood. TheBritinator (talk) 12:59, 11 December 2024 (UTC)