Historical present: Revision history

29 April 2024

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20 April 2024

• curprev 01:0601:06, 20 April 2024‎ WhatamIdoing talk contribs‎ 6,834 bytes +34‎ Rearrange undo Tag: Visual edit

31 March 2024

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17 January 2024

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26 May 2023

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25 November 2022

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4 October 2022

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8 November 2021

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8 April 2021

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21 February 2021

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18 November 2020

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11 August 2020

• curprev 21:4921:49, 11 August 2020‎ Crispins C. Crispian talk contribs‎ 6,588 bytes +370‎ →‎In other languages: added link to resource dealing with the historical present in the New Testament. undo

15 July 2020

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29 June 2020

• curprev 06:2006:20, 29 June 2020‎ Scju talk contribs‎ 6,216 bytes +2‎ →‎In describing fiction: Changed: as if the story's ''now'' is a continuous present → as if the story's ''now'' were a continuous present undo

24 May 2020

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15 February 2020

• curprev 18:3318:33, 15 February 2020‎ Sheila1988 talk contribs‎ 6,140 bytes +197‎ Filled in 2 bare reference(s) with reFill 2 undo
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6 January 2020

• curprev 10:1910:19, 6 January 2020‎ Viennese Waltz talk contribs‎ 5,639 bytes +20‎ →‎In other languages: wl undo

1 October 2019

• curprev 16:2216:22, 1 October 2019‎ Ayenaee talk contribs‎ m 5,619 bytes +77‎ Adding local short description: "Employment of present tense when narrating past events", overriding Wikidata description "linguistic device" (Shortdesc helper) undo

1 August 2019

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17 July 2019

• curprev 22:4522:45, 17 July 2019‎ Keith D talk contribs‎ 5,726 bytes +3‎ Fix cite date error undo Tag: AWB
• curprev 21:2621:26, 17 July 2019‎ Beyondthe4thwall talk contribs‎ 5,723 bytes +1,160‎ Added a few key references to the use of historical present in English, and cleaned up the section about quotative verbs. Also added a note about its use in Shasta. undo Tag: Visual edit

21 March 2019

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2 March 2019

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9 August 2018

• curprev 23:4423:44, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 4,560 bytes +35‎ Refs: Convert & link Leech 1971. undo
• curprev 23:4123:41, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 4,525 bytes +35‎ Refs: Convert & link Huddleston, Pullum 2002. undo
• curprev 23:3623:36, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 4,490 bytes +6‎ →‎top: Linking Brinton-1992 note. undo
• curprev 23:3523:35, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 4,484 bytes +43‎ →‎Sources: Convert Brinton-1992 to harv ref. undo
• curprev 23:2823:28, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 4,441 bytes +210‎ →‎See also: New section. undo
• curprev 23:1123:11, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 4,231 bytes −8‎ →‎Sources: Okay, that's not a "Further reading" section, that's a "Sources" section, with unlinked citations in the running text. This is the first step to fixing that. undo
• curprev 23:0123:01, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 4,239 bytes +32‎ →‎top: Tagged {{Refimprove}}; only a single footnote so far. undo
• curprev 23:0023:00, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 4,207 bytes +689‎ →‎Other languages: New section. Start with statement about French. Also had to add new →‎References: section to contain the footnote, as there were no references before this. undo
• curprev 21:5421:54, 9 August 2018‎ Mathglot talk contribs‎ 3,518 bytes +16‎ Add sidebar. undo

27 February 2018

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5 November 2017

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3 November 2017

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17 June 2017

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14 June 2017

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6 July 2016

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29 June 2016

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28 June 2016

• curprev 12:0612:06, 28 June 2016‎ Hairy Dude talk contribs‎ 3,487 bytes −3‎ →‎Further reading: rm duplicate asterisks undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• curprev 12:0512:05, 28 June 2016‎ Hairy Dude talk contribs‎ 3,490 bytes +51‎ →‎Examples: don't use {{cquote}} in article space; do use citation features of {{quote}}; use double quotation marks (even in quotation) undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

7 April 2016

• curprev 09:1709:17, 7 April 2016‎ Mild Bill Hiccup talk contribs‎ 3,439 bytes −13‎ →‎Examples: Fixing style/layout errors; no "we" in Wikipedia undo

26 February 2016

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21 December 2015

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26 November 2015

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14 August 2015

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