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Well actually...I changed some words to reflect past tense, but it appears that present tense is used in multiple articles about events in the past...what are we going to go with? It doesn't make sense to say a person "is a pilot yadayada" but "they die" in the same paragraph. IMO, present tense in a character's article says to me that this character can still be relevant to the story, but if they're dead, they can't. [[User:Rocky8311|Rocky8311]] 18:22, October 16, 2005 (EDT) | Well actually...I changed some words to reflect past tense, but it appears that present tense is used in multiple articles about events in the past...what are we going to go with? It doesn't make sense to say a person "is a pilot yadayada" but "they die" in the same paragraph. IMO, present tense in a character's article says to me that this character can still be relevant to the story, but if they're dead, they can't. [[User:Rocky8311|Rocky8311]] 18:22, October 16, 2005 (EDT) | ||
:[[Battlestar wiki:Standards and Conventions|Current policy]] is present tense everywhere, except for character biographies and historical notes. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 22:50, 16 October 2005 (EDT) | |||
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Well actually...I changed some words to reflect past tense, but it appears that present tense is used in multiple articles about events in the past...what are we going to go with? It doesn't make sense to say a person "is a pilot yadayada" but "they die" in the same paragraph. IMO, present tense in a character's article says to me that this character can still be relevant to the story, but if they're dead, they can't. Rocky8311 18:22, October 16, 2005 (EDT)
- Current policy is present tense everywhere, except for character biographies and historical notes. --Peter Farago 22:50, 16 October 2005 (EDT)