Thread:Vincetick/@comment-29304659-20160726134241/@comment-25308539-20160727132838

chiming in

Hello hello! Welcome to the K-ON wiki :)

Nice to still see enthusiastic people coming in every now and then, and looks like you're a Love Liver as well!

I'm the resident grammar nut around here (though lately, I've been out of action :p). You bring up a really good point about the mixed tense usage, which was a problem that came up a lot in my last job, so I think I've got a really keen eye for it now. In the sentence you fixed above ("After hearing... university.") your fix is spot on correct since tenses should generally not be mixed in a single sentence.

However, for those history pages as a whole, there aren't really any hard or fast rules that I know of, since they're somewhere halfway between a plot synopsis (where I would use present tense) and a retelling of events (which would be a clear case of past tense).

But I think my intuition is telling me to stick to past tense for these. Taking the 'Disband' section Tsumugi Kotobuki's History page as a reference, it just doesn't feel right to have it in present tense, you know? Present tense makes it feel like a trailer for some summer blockbuster!

If you're going to edit more of these (which we'd all greatly appreciate here), then I'd say that they should be in past tense. And it also looks like you know how to use the different types of past tense too, so I think I can safely trust that whatever further edits you do will be correct too (in my last client's document, he seemed to have used the past perfect form for every instance of past tense...)

I might not have much time anymore to do big edit sweeps and re-reads of all these pages, but at the very least, I can glance over and check any edits you do end up making!