Why are they all in past-tense?
Because obviously, we all evolve into crabs, and they don’t have skin. /s
Many wikis of works of fiction have this policy. The idea is to use the same tense everywhere as it decouples the fictional timeline from our time. Since a story takes place over a period of time, there is no singular in-universe ‘now’. For consistency they choose to write everything from the perspective of an observer in the far future.
I’ve heard this before and I honestly find it so irritating to read that I avoid wikis that do it. I’m not saying that’s rational, but it’s a real thing.
If you’re going to enforce a tense, make it present (but honestly don’t enforce a tense, it’s very awkward to read).
Will given that Doctor Who is literally about time travel, I think they should fuck with the system by having completely inconsistent tenses in every article.
Heck, have it change several times within the same article!
“The penis was a reproductive organ. It is used for poking holes. It will be a tool for creating babies.”
Perfect.
