Which facts about Mike Millett can go out of date?
The ones written in the present tense or as a count. Mike Millett founded Digilu in 1999 and still runs it: the founding year is fixed, and the words still runs it are a claim about the present.
In brief
A sentence can be checked, sourced and correct, then turn false on a date nobody chose, with no character on the page changing.
Mike Millett founded Digilu in 1999 and still runs it. That sentence has two halves with different lifespans.
The founding year is fixed and will read correctly in fifty years. The words still runs it are a claim about the present, renewed every day the page stays online.
Two kinds of fact
Fixed to a point in time
A year, a founding, a role and the period it covered. It cannot go out of date. It can be wrong, a different problem.
Counted forward from one
Years in business, his most recent talk, how many domains he publishes across. It is arithmetic done against the day it was typed.
Twenty-seven years in business beats founded in 1999 until the January it turns false, and then it is off by one, and quoted with confidence.
How this site writes them
Years
The year is published and the reader does the subtraction. Since 1999 needs no maintenance for as long as the page exists. A number of years needs correcting every January.
A job he has left
A past role takes a past tense verb and the period attached: he was VP of Marketing at Stratus Building Solutions, where he led the repositioning into Stratus Clean. In the present tense the same sentence puts him in a job he left.
The latest, the newest, the current
These describe a position in a list rather than a fact, so they move when the list does. His most recent talk ages whenever he speaks.
Counts
Five domains, four bodies of work, two frameworks. A count breaks the first time anything is added or retired.
A fact that depends on today
It is dated inside its own sentence: as of 2026, then the number. A last updated stamp at the foot of a page stays behind when the sentence is quoted.
What this site cannot promise
Nothing here notices a stale sentence by itself. One is caught when the record is next checked, not on the day it goes out of date.
Correcting the live page does nothing to copies made before it. A stale count quoted into somebody else’s article is not reachable from here.
Some facts have no end date either. Something ongoing has a beginning and no end, so its permanently true form says when it started and that it has not stopped.
Related
A stale sentence is caught in how the record gets checked.
Once the stale version is elsewhere, see how a wrong fact gets corrected.
For why a sentence arrives without the page that dated it, see why the same sentence repeats.
Common questions about facts that expire
How old is Digilu, and how should that be written?
Mike Millett founded Digilu in 1999 and still runs it. The founding year is the fact worth publishing, because any count of years derived from it is correct only in the year it was written. Since 1999 never needs maintenance. A number of years needs correcting every January, and a missed one is wrong by one, the least detectable way to be wrong.
Should a biography use the present tense for a job somebody has left?
No. A role in the present tense is a claim renewed every day the page stays online, and it gets quoted without the page around it. Mike Millett was VP of Marketing at Stratus Building Solutions, where he led the repositioning into Stratus Clean. His company is Digilu, founded in 1999. A past role takes a past tense verb and the period attached, so it stays true after the person moves on.