User talk:Cerin Beren

Past Tense Policy
Welcome, Cerin Beren! Thank you for your changes to the Church of Sune‎‎, Church of Selûne (Waterdeep)‎‎, and chwinga pages. When editing articles, please be aware that this wiki uses a past-tense policy, which means you should write in narrative tense, as if you were reading a novel describing events of the past. Also, please add links to other pages if the topic has not come up before, as follows: Icewind Dale (this leads to the Icewind Dale page). Thanks again, and happy editing! ~ Possessed Priest (talk) 05:07, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank You to Possesed Priest
Editing a wiki isn't as intuitive as I thought it'd be. Thank you for telling me about the past tense ruling, even though it does seem strange in some places. Historical events and things that no longer exist should, of course, be referred to in the past tense, but something that a creature will always do or a building that probably won't change for some time doesn't seem to be the place to put past tense. Take, for example, the line "Like most elementals, chwingas did not eat, drink, or breathe, but unusually they did sleep." I think it sounds very strange to say that the chwingas did not eat, drink, or breathe because it sounds like they've gone extinct. Unless there's a major lore change, I think that it's likely that elementals will never require food, liquid, or air, so it would make more sense to me to put it as "...chwingas do not eat, drink, or breathe".

Nevertheless, I will respect the wiki's rules and do my best to make all my future writings past tense. Again, thank you for taking the time to send me that welcome paragraph and changing all my incorrect edits.

Cerin Beren (talk) 06:20, 5 January 2021 (UTC)