Forum:"Ultimate fate" rant

Probably no one else cares about this, but since other people have been "rant"ing...

One of my pet peeves is the use of the phrase "his ultimate fate is unknown" which is explicitly banned in the MoS and still shows up all over the place here. The scroll box below is just a partial list of articles which use that exact phrase (case in point- this "partial list" is 48 articles long). I think that generally the phrase can just be deleted as the mere lack of mention of an ultimate fate tells you that we don’t know it. Sometimes the information is pertinent (like between installments of a new series like LOTF), and in those cases there’s probably a better way to relay that information, though comments on what exactly that would be are welcome.

Pretty much I just wanted a little input before I started a purge of this phrase in case anybody flipped out (since people have probably gotten used to the phrase as it hasn't been removed by any of the people who have edited those 48 articles). Anybody else want to help tackle this? Wildyoda 20:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)