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I know I keep sticking stuff like this in all over the place, and please do let me know if it's getting tedious, but using a factual/historical perspective doesn't necessarily mean everything has to be past tense, which can be jarring. While I'm reading the wiki my mode of thought is almost that I'm reading information published at the time. As if the wiki were available in 1807 and so on. That's why I find things like "Berkley was the Maximus' captain" discouraging, because it suggests a future that hasn't happened yet and we can't know about assuming that it's now 1807. A wiki as society pages in a newspaper? The majority of the articles should be written in the past tense, because the action's already happened, but if it's an ongoing situation, "is" seems more appropriate and as more books are brought out, and the canon moves on, article will be updated from is to was naturally. --[[User:Andrew|Andrew]] 08:40, 6 November 2007 (PST) | I know I keep sticking stuff like this in all over the place, and please do let me know if it's getting tedious, but using a factual/historical perspective doesn't necessarily mean everything has to be past tense, which can be jarring. While I'm reading the wiki my mode of thought is almost that I'm reading information published at the time. As if the wiki were available in 1807 and so on. That's why I find things like "Berkley was the Maximus' captain" discouraging, because it suggests a future that hasn't happened yet and we can't know about assuming that it's now 1807. A wiki as society pages in a newspaper? The majority of the articles should be written in the past tense, because the action's already happened, but if it's an ongoing situation, "is" seems more appropriate and as more books are brought out, and the canon moves on, article will be updated from is to was naturally. --[[User:Andrew|Andrew]] 08:40, 6 November 2007 (PST) | ||
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