Forum:Manual of Style

I would like to suggest that we add the following to the Article Guidelines and eventually a Manual of Style:
 * 1) The use of American style quotation. American style simply means that commas and periods are put inside the quotation (see above links). For the sake of consistency, it would be nice to have an official stance on this.
 * 2) Use of "perpetual present tense": articles should be written in the present tense. Wikipedia suggests that fiction should written about in present tense because, "Works of fiction are generally considered to "come alive" when read. They exist in a kind of perpetual present tense, regardless of when the fictional action is supposed to take place relative to "now." Thus, generally you should write about fiction using the present tense, not the past tense" (source). It's not a huge deal, just make verb tense consistent.

What do you all think?

 EvergreenFir  06:37, August 11, 2012 (UTC)