Forum:Past tense policy: is it the best way for us to run our wiki?

Hello everyone. I am Harrypotterexpert101, and I am a Discussions Moderator here at the wiki. I am not totally involved in wiki editing, but when I am, I tend to be as proficient as possible. I want to raise a concern about [[Forum:Past/Present tense?|the Past tense policy. I also sent this to Ironyak1, so there is some correspondence.

Reading through the discussion in Forum:Past/Present tense? I saw a few things that I disagree with. Here are some highlights:

Cavalier One wrote: "Past tense on all articles is preferential for the reasons that it resolves all issues of when present/past tense should be used in articles. By keeping to a single standard, there is no room for misinterpretation. Wookieepedia, which I point to as the standard by which wikis should aspire to be like in terms of article content and organization, uses past tense for all articles, regardless of whether or not the subject is still alive in current canon works. Also, putting all articles in past tense ensures that, if for any reason Rowling releases further works set after 2017, articles will not need to be rewritten to accept the new timeframe."

This doesn't make sense to me. If the person/thing still exists, why in the world would we write it in past-tense? For example, would it make sense for me to say: "Seth Cooper was a bureaucrat of the Harry Potter wiki."?

''Nick O'Demus wrote: "I think the Biography and Relationships sections at least should be written exclusively in past-tense. However, descriptive information, such as in the article header, Personality and Traits, and Magical Abilities and Skills could be present-tense, unless the character is confirmed to be deceased." ''

This makes a lot of sense to me honestly. What doesn't make sense to me was the fact that we wanted consistency over logic, which was something Starstuff and Cavalier One said.

I have seen complaints about this policy before, so I decided to go back and read it in its full. I decided to bring this forward for open community discussion to gather any input and ideas on how to improve this policy. Obviously I do not have the rights necessary to actually say we could change the policy, so I would like some administrator/bureaucrat input as well. Thanks for reading!

&mdash; Harrypotterexpert101  https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ursuul/images/0/0a/Council-icon-FANDOM.svg (talk)  22:28, September 25, 2019 (UTC)