Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4977079-20160526120617/@comment-4977079-20160529043213

It's just that I'm not used to writing histories all in past-tense, my habit's always been to write the 'early life/pre-series' sections in past-tense and the book events in present-tense because that's what always made sense to me, since the events are happening in the series. I mean, when we are introduced to the characters events are happening in the present in the series so I've always used that as a guide to what tense to use.

So, the character histories I've written up are probably in present-tense, unless someone later edited them to make them past-tense. I didn't realise at the time that the character histories had to be written in past-tense and I guess I thought that if I did make a mistake then someone else would come along and edit it again. And I never thought that tense really mattered that much, to be honest.

And, though I haven't looked at the book plot summaries for ages, the last time i looked most were written in present-tense. That's probably partly my fault, since I helped write up a few of them and I didn't think of writing them in past-tense. Do the book plot summaries need to be in past-tense then, if the character histories are in past-tense?

And, is this tense thing specific to this wiki or is it for all wikis? I've seen other wikis which use both past-tense and present-tense in the histories on their character pages and no one's ever specificed which tense to use. :/

Here are the pages:

Sharn

Jasmine

Lief

Barda

Britta (and probably all the Star of Deltora character pages)

Rye

Rowan (and probably all the Rowan of Rin character pages)

I don't get why the character histories need to be in past-tense, but I'm not complaining! :) Especially if it's a wiki rule.