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 === Real-world individuals ===
-On our articles for real-world cast and crew, [[Tardis:Out-of-universe perspective]] wisely suggests that we avoid sentences that require the present tense. For instance, rather than introducing [[Mat King]] with "Mat King is a British director", which future editors would have to manually update upon his (hopefully distant) death, [[T:OOU]] instructs us to instead choose an alternative formulation like "Mat King directed the episode ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'' in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[series 7 (Doctor Who)|series 7]]".
+On our articles for real-world cast and crew, [[Tardis:Out-of-universe perspective]] wisely suggests that we avoid sentences that require the present tense. For instance, rather than introducing [[Mat King]] with "Mat King is a British director", which future editors would have to manually update upon his (hopefully distant) death, [[T:OOU]] instructs us to instead choose an alternative formulation like "Mat King directed the episode ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'' in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[series 7 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 7]]".
 However, due to the policy's heavy emphasis on the burden of changing the tense on pages, this has led to the misconception that real-world pages for cast and crew are ''forbidden'' from using present tense. As a result, some of our cast and crew pages introduce their subjects with the format "[Actor] ''was'' a British actor" – implying that they've died!