Wikipedia:As of

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The as of technique is a way to deal with statements that date quickly. Some articles have information that is valid only for a specific moment in history. If you suspect that the article will become significantly out of date in years to come, and want to ensure that people will update it, please include a link [[As of nnnn]], with year of validity. That way, it will be easy to find articles with possibly outdated information. More detailed tags are possible, and perhaps even sometimes desirable. However, the year will generally be sufficient and is desirable for simplicity's sake. For more information, please visit Wikipedia talk:As of.

A separate list using a different mechanism is at Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating.

1 The "as of" page format
2 List of "As of" pages
3 Deprecated "As of" pages
4 See also

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The "as of" page format

Each "as of" page redirects to the year in question, and includes a message describing its purpose. The redirects are marked with {{R for as of}} so as to allow locating the articles easily by clicking Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:R for as of. Code the "as of nnnn" page like this:

#REDIRECT [[nnnn]] {{R for as of}}

Please add new "as of" pages to the list below.

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List of "As of" pages

Links which have (empty) after them were linked to from here only as of October 28, 2004

As of 1911 Links (data from 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica)
As of 1935 Links
As of 1938 Links
As of 1975 Links (empty)
As of 1978 Links
As of 1979 Links
As of 1980 Links (empty)
As of 1981 Links (empty)
As of 1983 Links (includes data from 1983 Doornbos and Bender via Ethnologue)
As of 1985 Links (empty)
As of 1986 Links
As of 1987 Links (empty)
As of 1989 Links
As of 1990 Links
As of 1991 Links
As of 1992 Links
As of 1993 Links
As of 1994 Links
As of 1995 Links
As of 1996 Links
As of 1997 Links
As of 1998 Links
As of 1999 Links
As of 2000 Links (includes data from U.S. April 1 2000 Census)
As of 2001 Links (includes data from the Australian 2001 Census)
As of 2002 Links
As of 2003 Links
As of 2004 Links
As of 2005 Links
As of 2006 Links
As of 2007 Links

Another efficient way to find newly created "as of" pages is to use Special:Allpages/As of.

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Deprecated "As of" pages

[[As of (month) (year)]] form is deprecated and should be avoided, as described above. Adjust articles to the standard form, where found. To link a statement which may be specific to a month or date, code as:

[[As of 2004|As of August 2004]], which produces As of August 2004

Deprecated pages: