Originally Posted by
beltway
The wiki could really use some cleaning up these days. Whoever edited it in an attempt to include the 48-month rule has put in conflicting info about whether the 48 months applies to any card open/close (see, e.g., the very top of the wiki) or, as I understand to be the case, the date of last bonus.
(And to anticipate one possible response: nope, I'm not taking on that task. I spent plenty of time over the years maintaining wikis, including this one; with rare exceptions, I'm done, for reasons the FT rules prohibit me from stating publicly.)
Originally Posted by
sdsearch
I attempted to clean up the worst cases I noticed: The very top, and FAQ #1 . I did not try to figure out how to clean up the historical part. (Some of the historical stuff is now incomplete, because it doesn't document the most-recent-but-no-longer-applicable rules, but getting that history right seems much less important at this point than getting right how it works now.)
Please be aware that while these rules are I think consistent for all AA cards at Citi, they may not (yet?) be consistent across all cards in all programs at Citi.
Part of the problem, I think, is that the wiki itself requests that offer numbers be retained "for the sake of continuity", and I think we've reached the point where that has no value and just adds to the confusion; none of the current offers have any relationship to old ones except for some reused URLs.
Also, the same information gets provided in multiple places, I (and I assume others) have made a point of keeping the old info wherever it was but marking it as outdated, "for continuity". But again I think it would be better to note the historical requirements just once at the top, and leave it out and renumber everywhere else. And maybe cut down on some of the redundancy.
And, yes, the Citi TYP cards still have 24 month language.