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Tssha
2005.07.14, 1539
I've been checking out the Wiki, and I'm finding myself having to add to or edit a large number of the pages I come across. For cripes sake, you guys are using the present tense in a reference material! Passive, past tense is best for that sort of thing. As for anything on game lore, backstory or anything else written in a story style, past tense usually reads so much better!

No offence guys, but you could also afford to brush up on your grammar. :p Some of the gramatical errors I've come across are just atrocious...

MasterCalaelen
2005.07.14, 1543
I've been checking out the Wiki, and I'm finding myself having to add to or edit a large number of the pages I come across. For cripes sake, you guys are using the present tense in a reference material! Passive, past tense is best for that sort of thing. As for anything on game lore, backstory or anything else written in a story style, past tense usually reads so much better!

No offence guys, but you could also afford to brush up on your grammar. :p Some of the gramatical errors I've come across are just atrocious...

Feel free to correct them.

Hayoo
2005.07.14, 1559
hehe, you're going to be working for a long time then. But have at it! :) Consider though that there are multiple authors for each entry who are adding content, changing words, moving around lines, etc. Some of the articles you are correcting, like Proximity Map, were lifted directly from SOE.

Please don't assume it's one author or group's horrible use of the English language. We're doing the best we can with the amount of material to be added and the time it takes to put them in. Consider also that even after you correct a lot of the articles, someone else will come along and lump you in with the rest of us for not having a clean-whistle Wiki. ;)

MasterCalaelen
2005.07.14, 1601
And we don't all come from countries where English is the native language.

myrtar
2005.07.14, 1829
hehe, it really is hard to keep up. we've had something like 800 changes in the last three days, a lot of them are totally new articles.

it's awesome.

ChewyLSB
2005.07.14, 1846
Heh, well sometimes I get a little long winded with my articles, but I try to keep good grammar throughout... but sometimes I mess up...