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== Real world articles == | == Real world articles == | ||
Real world articles are | Real world articles are about ''production elements'', such as actors, stories and filmmaking terminology. Such articles should be written in a straightforward, {{w|third-person perspective}}, such as you would find in any newspaper or encyclopaedia. | ||
Such articles should be written in a straightforward, {{w|third-person perspective}}, such as you would find in any newspaper or encyclopaedia. | |||
It's useful to attempt to write such articles in the '''past tense''' as much as possible, since all these articles will ultimately be converted to the past tense, anyway. | It's useful to attempt to write such articles in the '''past tense''' as much as possible, since all these articles will ultimately be converted to the past tense, anyway. | ||
<div id=tech>Remember, this isn't Wikipedia. We don't have hundreds of editors poised to change an article into the proper tense once a person dies or leaves the ''Doctor Who'' production office. We have only a small group of active editors, so it saves time to write real world articles in past tense as much as is practicable.</div> | |||
Here are some common situations: | Here are some common situations: | ||
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|style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;"|The 414th issue of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' was published on 11 November 2009. | |style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;"|The 414th issue of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' was published on 11 November 2009. | ||
|style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|The 414th issue of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' is current in November 2009. <br><br>(It's tempting with periodicals to think of the here and now, especially if you're entering them into our database when they're first on newsstands. But they very quickly become back issues, and ultimately slide to a more natural-sounding past tense. Therefore, you should use the past tense from the start.) | |style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|The 414th issue of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' is current in November 2009. <br><br>(It's tempting with periodicals to think of the here and now, especially if you're entering them into our database when they're first on newsstands. But they very quickly become back issues, and ultimately slide to a more natural-sounding past tense. Therefore, you should use the past tense from the start.) | ||
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|style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;"|Matt Smith played the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. | |||
|style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|Matt Smith plays the Eleventh Doctor. <br><br>(Yes, he's the current Doctor. No, there are no definite indications that he's leaving soon. But leave he absolutely will. Ultimately, therefore, this article will be converted to past tense. If it's already written in past tense, though, we won't have to rewrite it.) | |||
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