Forum:What's with using the Past Tense everywhere?!

Why use the Past Tense for describing Races among others? I thought it was generally a no-no in the realm of wikis... The original materials don't do it, and imo it's generally off-putting... When you are playing a tabletop RPG, you don't create your story in the past do you? Why write the wiki as if it's all in the past? "Dwarves were a humanoid race..." No, they freaking ARE, unless general lore considers them all to be extinct...