Past tense Apologies in advance for any typos  bad keyboard and limited time  also Ill try to put across a coherent argument without letting emotions get in the way but I am really angry about this for reasons Ill explain later It is incorrect English to say that events happening over a  year span all happened at once ie in the present For example to say that EastEnders begins is incorrect EastEnders began In  The article as it is at the moment in present tense reads like EastEnders is a film  with a set end which we know it is not  it keeps running It is my strong belief that events that happened in the past in something that runs in real time should also be written in real time ie past tense for things that hapened in the past  an argument that I have seen all three editors above use at different times One of the reasons I am angry about this is that certain editors seem to have such a disregard for our language and the way it should be written that they are willing to forget all about grammar and write this article which in my opinion and as stated by Gungadin elsewhere is harder to read than it was before in past tense  just to get this article to FA status  how gloryseeking is that Dont get me wrong itd be great for this article to get to FA status but to totally forget about good grammar just because the policy pushers may I add that WPTENSE is a guideline not a policy say that it needs to be in present tense juts takes the biscuit WPTENSE was obviously decided without taking into account real time series  something myself and Elonka have raised on various talk pages to try and change this but as soon as I have gone away it seems everyone has changed their minds and are happy to have this article written in bad hard to read English just to get it to FA status I say we should have it in readable tense  past  and screw tha FA status If the voters cant see this is better in past tense at least we all know it is deserving of FA status anyway  AND readable