Talk:Puna, Hawaii

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 * Note: I also presumptively removed an earlier massive addition to the page by an IP whose edit summary, "Corrected info and updated information on Puna, Hawaiʻi", is similar to others of the same editor (e.g., ). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:51, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

"Currently"
"Kīlauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes, and is currently in one of its longest active phases. The current eruption has been continuously in action since 1983"

Words like "currently" or "recently" don't really make a whole lot of sense in an encyclopedic context because the reader does not know what they refer to. Do they refer to the present day? Do they refer to 2018 or whenever this sentence may have been written, and do I really have to research the history of the article first before I can understand what is meant? Do they refer to geological time spans, like a time span from 1000 A.D. to 3000 A.D. might be considered "currently"?

As far as I am aware, in the year of 2019 so far there has not been any active lava flow on the island, so if "currently" was meant in the sense of "right now", the sentence would be just plain wrong.

It would be nice if someone could come up with a less ambiguous wording. --87.150.10.246 (talk) 07:58, 17 March 2019 (UTC)


 * I’ve updated the section but further improvements would be welcome. Jusdafax (talk) 07:13, 7 October 2019 (UTC)