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Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger..." stands out as an acceptable usage. Putting "the late" in any article where people can simply click on the internal link to find birth and death range necessitates a return for style reasons. Thurmond has been dead for what, five years now? He's also famous enough, I would hope, that people would remember that. : -->
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I appreciate the calm response, I expect no less from an administrator, but I've encountered "the late" in references to people who died since the creation of wikipedia and I feel that it gives a temporal quality. Certainly you wouldn't write "the late
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If the manual of style doesn't prohibit this type of usage, it should. Since my early days using wikipedia, I've not attempted to make substantial enough edits to merit studying the manual but if I'm receiving a multi part message ranging from forgetting to use my quadruple tilde on year old edits
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By the way, if you don't mind, I think it would be good to copy this e-mail conversation to the appropriate spot at the bottom of your talk page, so that if someone comes along in the future and reads the beginning they can see how it concluded. (This happens more often than you might think.)
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