Tardis:Out-of-universe perspective

There are two instances on this wiki when you will write from an out-of-universe perspective: when you're writing an article that is entirely about a real world subject, or when you're adding to the "behind the scenes" section on an in-universe article.

Real world articles
Real world articles are about production elements, such as actors, stories and filmmaking terminology. Such articles should be written in a straightforward,, such as you would find in any newspaper or encyclopaedia.

It's useful to attempt to write such articles in the past tense as much as possible, since all these articles will ultimately be converted to the past tense, anyway. Remember, this isn't Wikipedia. We don't have hundreds of editors poised to change an article into the proper tense once a person dies or leaves the Doctor Who production office. We have only a small group of active editors, so it saves time to write real world articles in past tense as much as is practicable.

Here are some common situations:

Behind the scenes sections
Every article about an in-universe subject — that is to say, every article ultimately housed in the mega-category, Category:Time-Space Visualiser — can have two distinct components: the main body and the section labelled "behind the scenes".

Because in-universe articles are mainly written in past tense, it's usually helpful to employ the present tense to write behind the scenes sections. Doing so draws a sharp contrast, as can be seen at "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle". However, it's not always necessary, or practicable. For instance, there would be no way to write the "behind the scenes" at Marco Polo without some past tense.