Thread:LordTBT/@comment-4078511-20130104014613

Hello again!

I hesitated to edit the High Rhulain page as I did because I had checked about tenses beforehand in the manual of style and saw about the policy about past tense. And certainly, in all of the character pages I've come across, I've only noticed past tense.

I put present tense in the page for High Rhulian, though, because I had noticed that many of the book pages were written in present tense (for example, Mattimeo (book), Redwall, and Pearls of Lutra). I thought, perhaps, that book pages were the one exception to the past-tense convention on this wiki. And, I figured, if you decided I was in the wrong, you would simply correct me. And there we are.

Now I've looked into the matter even further, and though I may have overlooked something, it seems that every book summary in the Redwall series, but two--High Rhulain and Outcast of Redwall--are written in present tense (but for a few conflicting sentences or, indeed, entire paragraphs in some of the other books' pages. See, for example, the last four paragraphs of Doomwyte).

Do you prefer past tense for book summaries, too? Just because 20 books stand in opposition to 2 doesn't mean that the majority is to your liking, obviously. But I thought perhaps that, given the amount of time many of those pages have been up on this wiki, the present tense was just the way that you thought these stories should naturally be summarized.

So, if, for example, I was to go and make all of the disagreeing tenses in the page for Mariel of Redwall line up for each other, do you want me to line them up in past tense, or present? And if in past, would you like to see all of the books' pages shifted to past tense in due time?  