User talk:Tokyocolumbia

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Tokyocolumbia, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Your note

Thank you. I appreciate your understanding and cooperation. I know it can be very difficult to rephrase such things in your own words, but unfortunately this is the only way we can include summaries on Wikipedia. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk)

Tense

Hello... thanks for the note. With regard to television series, we use the present tense because the series exists as a creative work, even if no new episodes are being produced. The only time we would consider using past tense is if all copies of a series are destroyed, and the creative work therefore ceased to exist. Please feel free to ask if you have more questions about his. Cheers. --Ckatz^chat _spy 23:11, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't a Wikipedia matter, but instead reflective of how creative works are described in English. Keep in mind that it would actually be incorrect to use the past tense, as we would be suggesting the series no longer exists. (This would be somewhat difficult to justify to people who are still watching it in reruns, or who have the DVDs, or who live in a region that hasn't yet broadcast the final episode.) Furthermore, why would we differentiate TV shows from films, books, and other creative works? We would never say that Star Wars "was" a film, or that War and Peace "was" a novel. Production details change - it was aired, it was shot at such-and-such a location, but it stars the actors and it is a television series. Hope this helps. --Ckatz^chat _spy 23:48, 6 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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