Talk:Prowl (G1)
I am all for having an entry that consists entirely of "OUR MISSILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", but is the bold really neccessary? It makes it look like a header. --Suki Brits 02:09, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Trivia says: At OTFCC 2004 that there was no Prowl Alternator in the works. I'm assumignt here's suppsoed ot be a "_____ stated" int here someplace. Who stated? Hasbro? Aaron Archer? Hooper-X? (I could see Hooper wanting to disappoint a room full of Transfans.) -Derik 07:05, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I thought the Prowl2 line was just a joke.
Past Tense?
We probably need a policy statement somewhere (or at least somewhere I can find it) as to whether fictional events are described in present tense (as in the Wikipedia), in past tense (as preferred by at least one of our mods), or in whichever the writer prefers. JW 13:34, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Apparently I'm no good at keeping track of tense, so people sometimes chastise me after I've filled in the fiction sections. Of course, I didn't even know we had a policy. --FFN 13:51, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, apparently we do need a summary of what tense to use where, 'cuz I can't find anything like that. But to sum up -- Introductory paragraph in present tense, fiction in past tense. Basically, "This is who the character IS, this is what the character DID." --ItsWalky 15:25, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Do we have a consensus on that, or are you speaking ex moderata? And, how does this apply to non-character pages, like synopses of comics? JW 15:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'd say it's a consensus, as I believe most of the top-contributers write the pages in that way. (For a while, Sunstreaker was our "this is how you do a page" project, though it's likely out of date by now for some new developments...) For non-character pages like episode or comic summaries, I'd suggest present tense. I don't think I've actually read enough summary pages close enough to say if they're being written in mostly one tense or the other... but "present" is my off-the-cuff preference. --ItsWalky 15:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Most of what we write is past tense, especially when summarizing fiction. It doesn't matter whether it's a character page or an episode/issue page. -- [User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 16:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Walky's rationale makes sense to me, and I agree with Steve that it should apply to episode/issue pages. A story summary is a story summary, and summaries are written by definition after something has happened. --Sntint 20:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'd say it's a consensus, as I believe most of the top-contributers write the pages in that way. (For a while, Sunstreaker was our "this is how you do a page" project, though it's likely out of date by now for some new developments...) For non-character pages like episode or comic summaries, I'd suggest present tense. I don't think I've actually read enough summary pages close enough to say if they're being written in mostly one tense or the other... but "present" is my off-the-cuff preference. --ItsWalky 15:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Do we have a consensus on that, or are you speaking ex moderata? And, how does this apply to non-character pages, like synopses of comics? JW 15:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, apparently we do need a summary of what tense to use where, 'cuz I can't find anything like that. But to sum up -- Introductory paragraph in present tense, fiction in past tense. Basically, "This is who the character IS, this is what the character DID." --ItsWalky 15:25, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
