Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.66.16.115-20200727024240/@comment-38078079-20200728151919

Fandyllic wrote:

My advice: Seek therapy. That's incredibly uncalled for, Fandyllic.

In any case:

In academic writing, we were taught to always use present tense.

On our wiki, we try to be as professional as possible, and aim for an encyclopaedic standard, so we ask our users to use present tense on all articles. I think there is a case to be made for past tense, too, and every wiki is entitled to their own styles and opinions (and the reasons for past tense listed above seem valid, too). I would suppose discussions on what tense to use would better on the individual wikis in question, as it seems an incredibly individualistic thing.