User talk:MJRivera

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Can someone tell me the codes to imbed to link the episodes I mentioned in my user page to their appropriate episode pages? Thanks. --MJRivera 12:18, 30 July 2006 (EDT)
 * Hello MJRivera. Links are simply created by putting "" and "" around the episode names. So: and . See also Help:Wiki markup and our Introduction. -- Kobi 16:26, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Point of view and tense
Please note that in articles such as Acapulco, past tense is used deliberately, since we are writing an encyclopedia from the point of view of archivists from the far future (29th century or even later). See Memory Alpha:Point of view for more information. Thanks! -- Renegade54 15:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Were we told by these archivists that the city no longer exists? --MJRivera 15:43, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

We are the archivists, and the assumption is that 1,000 years from now, transient things like cities, nations, etc. if they still exist, will be in a vastly different form than now. Again, see Memory Alpha:Point of view; it's a policy that not everyone agrees with, and over which there have been a number of rather passionate arguments on both sides of the issue. But, it's the POV that has been agreed on by the majority. It can always be brought up again for discussion, of course. ;) -- Renegade54 16:07, 5 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Not just "1000 years"... but some unsaid enormous amount of time in the future. -- Sulfur 16:16, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Right, 10,000 years, 100,000 years... a long time in the future, in which the information recorded here is truly ancient history. -- Renegade54 16:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I sure hope Acapulco and Berkely still exist far, far into the future :) --MJRivera 03:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)