How are Wikipedia articles kept consistent with each other? Say someone like Prince dies. His page will instantly change, seemingly while his portrait is still in the sky and the cannon fires.<p>But with certain people there&#x27;s a variety of connected items that need referential integrity. For instance, I can imagine Prince being on one of those lists (eg highest grossing) that has bold text for still living artist. For office holders, they need to be moved from &quot;incumbent&quot; to a box with dates and the new incumbent needs to be updated. And then there&#x27;s text snippets that are in present tense (&quot;Prince and David Bowie are among the greatest living artists&quot;).<p>And then there&#x27;s the corresponding pages in other languages.<p>How&#x27;s it done?