Help talk:Magic words for beginners

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Avoid using Currentyear

If I've understood WP:RELTIME and Template:As of correctly (and the general need for people to write specifically in an encyclopedia) then it seems like a whole lot of the usage of {{currentyear}} in mainspace is incorrect and editors need to be warned to avoid using them these variables. This documentation seems like a good start as it explains how to use it as a substitution template, but maybe this documentation needs to also explain why they probably shouldn't be using the {{currentyear}} at all and should probably be using {{As of}} with specific values instead. -- 109.76.133.221 (talk) 13:48, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]