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|style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;"|[[Adam Smith (director)|Adam Smith]] directed the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' | |style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;" rowspan="2"|[[Adam Smith (director)|Adam Smith]] directed the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. | ||
|style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|Adam Smith is a [[British]] television [[director]] who directed the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''<br><br> | |style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|Adam Smith is a [[British]] television [[director (crew)|director]] who directed the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]''.<br><br>(It's unnecessary to use the present tense to call him a British television director. Our emphasis on any behind-the-scenes person is what they did in the [[DWU]] — and everyone's work on the DWU ends up in the past tense.) | ||
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|style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|Adam Smith was a [[British]] television [[director (crew)|director]] who directed the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''.<br/><br/>(If you're writing about a living person who is still directing, or in any other cases where the sentence is ''describing a person'' and ''still true in the present'', this could wrongly imply that they have already died. The [[Tardis:Point of view#In-universe perspective|end-of-universe perspective]] applies only to [[Tardis:In-universe perspective|in-universe]] pages!) | |||
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|style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;"|'''''Smith and Jones''''' was the first episode of the third series of [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | |style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;"|'''''Smith and Jones''''' was the first episode of the third series of [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | ||
|style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|'''''Smith and Jones''''' is the first episode of the third series of [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''.<br><br>Yes, it ''is''. But as time passes, people inevitably start thinking of older episodes in the past tense. It's better to write it in the past tense from the beginning. | |style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|'''''Smith and Jones''''' is the first episode of the third series of [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''.<br><br>(Yes, it ''is''. But as time passes, people inevitably start thinking of older episodes in the past tense. It's better to write it in the past tense from the beginning.) | ||
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|style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;"| | |style="background-color:#8cb82c; padding:10px;"|[[Ncuti Gatwa]] played the [[Fifteenth Doctor]]. | ||
|style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"| | |style="background-color:#e25822; padding:10px;"|[[Ncuti Gatwa]] plays the [[Fifteenth Doctor]]. <br><br>(Yes, he's the current Doctor. No, there are no definite indications that he's leaving anytime soon. But leave she 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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