Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.66.16.115-20200727024240/@comment-38078079-20200728182242

Tupka217 wrote: Also... academic writing isn't the same as writing a character bio. I remember in Uni (which was Unemployme Historic Lit), the Padding subject's brief biography/history section was simple past tense and the actual study was present tense. Ah, weirdly, we did Lit, too, but never wrote biography/history sections.

I mean, I know it's not the same as writing a character biography, and you can't compare academic writing of any sort to say an anime character, but generally - if you pick up say an encyclopaedia - it tends to be in present tense. It felt to us, when we were discussing rules and things, it was more in spirit of a wiki to have present tense throughout, as its purpose is to be an encyclopaedic resource of that franchise. It just personally feels more fitting, like how you wouldn't expect a recipe book to be in past tense, or an instruction manual to be in future tense.