Wikipedia talk:As of/Archive 1

message: All "as of" pages redirect to a single page (Wikipedia:As of?) containing an explanation of what this "as of" business is all about.
(As a bonus, this single page's Whatlinkshere page would then provide a convenient list of the "as of" links for all years.)
-- Paul A 10:14 21 May 2003 (UTC)
Paul A's last suggestion sounds excellent to me... unless someone has an objection, I'll implement it right away.  Please visit Wikipedia:As of and lend a hand. --Nelson 20:08 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
: I think I preferred it when they redirected to the year articles... Martin
: I think they should definitely redirect to the year pages. I have been using them in the same way that year pages are used, and have even been disguising them as links to year pages, in order not to confuse the casual reader. For example, I have been writing "As of 2003", which contains a hidden link to As of 2003, but looks the same as "As of 2003". This is so that people who aren't familiar with the scheme will not be confused by it - unless they happen to try to edit the page and notice it there, or happen to follow the link and see that they have been redirected. This may look a bit hypocritical of me, given my arguments against hidden links like "2003", but my justification in this case was that the person clicking on the "2003" link ended up at 2003 anyway, so they weren't really being deceived. This change rather scuppers that argument. I certainly don't think that people should be unexpectedly taken to a page in the "Wikipedia:" namespace if they are expecting to end up at a proper article. So can we change things back to how they were? (Comments on whether or not I should do my "link hiding" thing are welcome, by the way...) -- Oliver P. 08:03 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Okay, unless someone has any more objections, I'll redirect the "As of" pages to the year articles again. I'll give you a while to reply before I do anything, of course... -- Uncle Oliver 03:05 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I find using Google to search Wikipedia for "as of" is just as effective
as going to all the work to embed "as of" links to find targets for
change to date sensitive articles.   Here's the Google search string I use:
             site:www.wikipedia.org "as of"
Google and Wikipedia are very synergistic.
LarryW 10:12, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: But would people use "as of" if nowhere they are told that it is a useful convention? -- Error 04:51, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: That can be conveyed in the more general help files available within Wikipedia. LarryW 20:44, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: An alternative proposal

message: Do we still use this markup, now as of 2004? It's a good idea, although not very well known. I also wonder why all the talking is going on on the meta page, not the talkpage. Anyways, we need a list of all the as of-pages on the meta page. I'm going to add it. — Sverdrup 15:51, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Still used?

message: :the links which have (empty) after them were linked to from here only, tooto 16:36, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: No links left. Susvolans 14:57, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Should we delete all those pages, then? That would prevent anybody from creating a new link to them, seeing it as blue, and thinking it's OK - DavidWBrooks 12:54, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deprecated "As of" pages