Talk:Meadow Soprano

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Tense
Why are this and other Soprano's related articles written in the past tense? I am not going to edit this article since others are also written in the past tense, but it seems very odd to me, as articles (including academic articles) about films, plays and novels are usually written in the present tense.Nicklash (talk) 20:02, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Not sure I get your point. The article says that she "is" a character, that she "is" the first-born child, and in the final episode, she "is" shown outside the diner and she "is" late for the family dinner. In Soprano world, she eventually becomes an adult; so references to her teen years state that she "was" aware and that she "reconciled" with her family, because it refers to the past when she was a teen. Could it say that in her teens she "is" aware and that she "reconciles" with her family, but to me it makes more sense to describe that in past tense. I don't think it would make sense to say that "since her graduation, Meadow studies for medical school" because she eventually stops studying for med school. Can you point out specific instances where past tense doesn't make sense? Cresix (talk) 23:05, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Nicklash is correct that it is conventional to use the present tense when relating fictional accounts. Not surprisingly, there is an Wikipedia stub about this (see: Historical present). If you look up other summaries of fiction on Wikipedia (for example, this stub on "Great Expectations"), you can see how this works. --Malaikhanh (talk) 22:06, 25 December 2012 (UTC)