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Question from Ari Colon Three (07:27, 23 April 2026): Move punctuation to be inside formatting change.

← Previous revision Revision as of 06:59, 29 April 2026 Line 259: Line 259: :Hi [[User:Ari Colon Three|Ari Colon Three]]! Welcome to Wikipedia! I'll be more than happy to answer your questions and help you! Your question about whether or not to refer to COVID-19 using past-tense or present-tense is a great one to ask! I took a look at the main [[COVID-19]] article, and it refers to the disease ''itself or in general'' in the ''present-tense'' (Example: ''"[COVID-19] '''is a''' [[contagious disease]] caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2"'') but refers to events in the past involving COVID-19 in the ''past-tense'' (such as the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], which was an event). The answer to your question here is that it's not a black-and-white ''"always use it in past-tense"'' or ''"always use it in present-tense"'' situation - it depends on the context and exactly what you're discussing. If the article will mostly cover the pandemic in that particular region, much of it will likely be in the past-tense, as these were events that occurred in the past. :Hi [[User:Ari Colon Three|Ari Colon Three]]! Welcome to Wikipedia! I'll be more than happy to answer your questions and help you! Your question about whether or not to refer to COVID-19 using past-tense or present-tense is a great one to ask! I took a look at the main [[COVID-19]] article, and it refers to the disease ''itself or in general'' in the ''present-tense'' (Example: ''"[COVID-19] '''is a''' [[contagious disease]] caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2"'') but refers to events in the past involving COVID-19 in the ''past-tense'' (such as the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], which was an event). The answer to your question here is that it's not a black-and-white ''"always use it in past-tense"'' or ''"always use it in present-tense"'' situation - it depends on the context and exactly what you're discussing. If the article will mostly cover the pandemic in that particular region, much of it will likely be in the past-tense, as these were events that occurred in the past.

:To your next question: I don't see an issue with using the 'archive-url' and 'archive-date' parameters of the {{tl|Cite magazine}} to link to the archive.org page that you found of the media. Remember: we encourage everyone on Wikipedia to ''[[WP:BOLD|be bold]]''! So long as you're not engaging in [[WP:C|copyright violations]] or other serious policy violations, you're not going to be chased after by other editors with torches and pitchforks because you made [[WP:AGF|good faith]] attempts at improving articles, but didn't do everything 100% correctly while doing it. Wikipedia is founded and based off of making improvements to an article after the last editor who modified it; if you do something imperfectly, other editors will undoubtedly fix and expand those articles after you're done with them, and so will the next editor after that editor is done, and so on... ;-) :To your next question: I don't see an issue with using the 'archive-url' and 'archive-date' parameters of the {{tl|Cite magazine}} to link to the archive.org page that you found of the media. Remember: we encourage everyone on Wikipedia to ''[[WP:BOLD|be bold]]!'' So long as you're not engaging in [[WP:C|copyright violations]] or other serious policy violations, you're not going to be chased after by other editors with torches and pitchforks because you made [[WP:AGF|good faith]] attempts at improving articles, but didn't do everything 100% correctly while doing it. Wikipedia is founded and based off of making improvements to an article after the last editor who modified it; if you do something imperfectly, other editors will undoubtedly fix and expand those articles after you're done with them, and so will the next editor after that editor is done, and so on... ;-)

:Please let me know if you have any more questions or if you need assistance with anything, and I'll be more than happy to answer them and lend you a hand. ;-) Again, welcome to Wikipedia! Your questions were awesome, and I hope that you take off your jacket, have a seat, and stay here for awhile! That's exactly what I figured I'd do one day when I decided to join Wikipedia and make some edits and help out around the project. 19 years went by, and... I'm still here! :-) I hope you have a great day and I wish you happy editing! :-D Best - [[User:Oshwah|~Oshwah~]][[User_talk:Oshwah|(talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Oshwah|(contribs)]] 06:58, 29 April 2026 (UTC) :Please let me know if you have any more questions or if you need assistance with anything, and I'll be more than happy to answer them and lend you a hand. ;-) Again, welcome to Wikipedia! Your questions were awesome, and I hope that you take off your jacket, have a seat, and stay here for awhile! That's exactly what I figured I'd do one day when I decided to join Wikipedia and make some edits and help out around the project. 19 years went by, and... I'm still here! :-) I hope you have a great day and I wish you happy editing! :-D Best - [[User:Oshwah|~Oshwah~]][[User_talk:Oshwah|(talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Oshwah|(contribs)]] 06:58, 29 April 2026 (UTC)