This page documents an English Wikipedia editing guideline. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

Wikipedia contains date-sensitive information which may require revision on a known future date. Such date-sensitive statements are marked with an indicator that appears on a specified date displaying ^{[update needed]} and linking to this page. For example, United States presidential election, 2008 will need to be updated on November 4, 2008 (election), December 15, 2008 (electoral college), January 6, 2009 (tallying), and January 20, 2009 (inauguration), although this specific article is unlikely to need such reminders.

If ^{[update needed]} appears on a page, please edit the page to update the information and, as appropriate, delete the "update after" indicator or reset it to the next date the information needs to be updated. Please see Template:Update after, which has details on exactly when it may or may not be used, and what the required and optional parameters are. Other articles in need of updating can be found using the links listed below.

[edit] Links to pages needing updates

Pages still needing update (if any) from yesterday - last month - last year.

Pages needing update today - this month - this year.

[edit] See also

• Category:Wikipedia articles in need of updating includes these articles when they need updating, as well as articles linked with Template:Update.
• Wikipedia:As of includes these articles, as well as articles linked with As of.
• Wikipedia talk:Updating information shows links for several future years.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Update Watch