Board Thread:Planning/@comment-1743498-20131214024110/@comment-4844180-20131215112621

SupcommMonroee wrote: If there's no baseline date for any informative articles, how is anyone supposed to identify what time periods two things exist together, or what settings stories exist in? Stories aren't limited to time frame. Informative articles would be. Imagine if Wikipedia's article on Iran was Xerxes' Persia, the article on Russia was Stalin-era USSR, and the article on Britain had the construction of Hadrian's Wall as a recent event? The author could simply put in a timeline, like most of us do anyway. There is no need for a present day. Articles could be written in present-tense throughout, or past tense, or even future tense if wanted. There is no problem there. A timeline on the page gives you what you want there. There is no need to end a timeline either, go up to whenever you want be it a few billion years ago or a few billion years ahead.