Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32189512-20180210051645/@comment-35481362-20180513082509

Prozodiac1 wrote: Jaadowgg wrote: That's a good idea. All articles, except for the ones about deceased characters, should be present tense to show that, no matter what it is, is happening now. So, yeah. A good idea and thank you for bringing it up. No, deceased characters also use present tense (not to mention using past tense will spoil the story). Fictional characters are "alive" when the readers read them. Check the link. Hello, I know that I am new here, I was reading this topic. I followed the link. I read in depth what was said there. I think it would be helpful to clarify (before you inbark upon this huge project of 'righting all of the wrongs") clarify that what you are attempting to do here is to write wiki pages that are "perspectively appropriate" perhaps stating what the goal is and why. It took me a while to understand until I read the article from top to bottom. The Wiki Guidelines state: "The problem with in-universe perspective (are as follows) Features often seen in an inappropriate, in-universe perspective include:"

Then it goes on to list a few things incliding the one mentioned here in your thread. Except there was something in there that you did not mention in the thread. It makes you feel inflexible that it was not even mentioned. Usually when things feel to "ridget" they recieve less cooperation. In an attempt to assists with communication effectiveness, might I suggest that you state something that was even highter up in the article that locked in the primary reasoning for me? It was when the article stated simply " Some people cannot differenciate between fact and fiction" so in attempt to set appropriate guidelines that make it obviously fictional there were a few guideliness that were deemed "appropriate" One of them was: "Using past tense when discussing the plot or any of its elements (except backstory), rather than the historical present tense." Then I would proceed to explain as the page itself did also, exactly what is meant by the part that says ***(except backstory)*** the exception to the rule MAY prevent a lot of unnecessary "repairs" to something that isn't even broken. A backstory is further defined there as being: "A backstory, background story, back-story, or background is a set of events invented for a plot, presented as preceding and leading up to that plot. Backstory may be revealed by various means, including flashbacks, dialogue, direct narration, summary, recollection, and exposition." In my honest opinion, that very well may include some dead persons. I.E. Some of the butlers that are dead because of Alluka. Some of those butlers were mentioned ONLY to attribute the danger assiciated with Alluka's powers. An example of the mass destruction the powers are capable of. Without the 'backstory' a few of those buttlers would never hae gotten into HxH at all. I hope this helps. As a huge fan of Hunter x Hunter, Author of Fan Fiction おたく a.k.a. Otaku myself, pages like these are invaluable! I would love to see harmonious unity within this fandom! For hearing me out I say, ありがとございます -or- Thank you very much!