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==Perspective== | ==Perspective== | ||
Second-person perspective (referring to the reader as "you") is appropriate for walkthroughs, but is unprofessional for informational articles. Wiki articles should be written in third-person perspective, describing things and events on their own merits and not through how they relate to any specific reader. When referring to the player, use third-person nouns or pronouns such as "the player", "Link", "one", or "he or she", or use the passive voice (e.g. "after you complete the dungeon" is ''active'' voice, second-person; "after the dungeon is completed" is ''passive'' voice, third-person). | Second-person perspective (referring to the reader as "you") is appropriate for walkthroughs, but is unprofessional for informational articles. Wiki articles should be written in third-person perspective, describing things and events on their own merits and not through how they relate to any specific reader. When referring to the player, use third-person nouns or pronouns such as "the player", "Link", "one", or "he or she", or use the passive voice (e.g. "after you complete the dungeon" is ''active'' voice, second-person; "after the dungeon is completed" is ''passive'' voice, third-person). | ||
==Tense== | |||
While using past tense is appropriate in some cases, such as describing historical occurrences in a "development" section, games, game elements, and game events, should generally be described in present tense. The games still exist, even those which were released before others. In the literary world, it's convention to describe works in present tense. | |||