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- see any consensus at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Wikilawyering_over_passive_voice that the active voice is bad or that the passive voice should never...500 KB (69,467 words) - 00:20, 5 April 2023
- 15:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC) Amen! Passive voice can become like a diseases when used poorly; however, when passive voice is used well, it can be more effective...32 KB (4,973 words) - 14:23, 22 September 2010
- passive voice, but in my opinion, neither does this proposed style item. I think the point is that of avoiding the passive voice. The passive voice leaves...32 KB (5,013 words) - 15:24, 4 February 2023
- understanding of the passive voice from the age of 9. Is the OP aware that (s)he has used the passive voice in denigrating use of the passive voice? We don't need...194 KB (26,724 words) - 15:19, 4 February 2023
- wonder about consensus on the issue. It would be safer for MOS's integrity to individually address each of these issues (passive voice, trailing prepositions...222 KB (30,581 words) - 18:28, 14 April 2023
- template {{Passive voice}}? It looks like a style guideline template, but does not reflect what is stated at Wikipedia:MOS#Passive voice. The {{Copyedit}}...521 KB (73,278 words) - 00:33, 6 April 2023
- Perhaps it is because the prospect is so daunting. For a start, the passive voice throughout the page makes the writing weak and vague: "Headings and...37 KB (5,868 words) - 03:46, 19 February 2023
- in the active voice than in the passive voice. Many other sentences sound better and are clearer in the passive voice, instead." As such, it's clear that...620 KB (89,482 words) - 19:21, 1 October 2022
- but I'll summarize their advice on the passive voice and lists. I used to write habitually in the passive voice, without knowing what it was, until I read...53 KB (7,918 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2023
- part, but Tony's dislike of the passive voice seems to be primarily an aesthetic judgment as well. To me the passive voice connotes dispassion (ah, there's...34 KB (5,286 words) - 07:31, 23 March 2022
- and good writing, I always prefer writing in the active, and not the passive voice whenever possible. Suicide is an affirmative act, and the most common...201 KB (26,997 words) - 14:36, 28 January 2023
- avoid using the passive voice, but while this guideline was accepted by consensus, precisely why it should be never reached a consensus. As I recall, it...271 KB (40,402 words) - 21:40, 18 February 2023
- write in the passive voice, and they consider this a vitally important rule, but they can't give a precise description of what the passive voice is. If they...504 KB (70,903 words) - 09:14, 10 October 2023
- pound. But it's about as serious a problem as there being too much passive voice. Any benefit flowing from a project to fix this will be at best marginal...798 KB (110,346 words) - 00:35, 13 February 2023
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 111 (section Designing a system for establishing and recording consensus decisions)consensus version in place. –Whitehorse1 22:46, 9 December 2009 (UTC) (ec) Comment. It's true that passages that make excessive use of passive voice can...515 KB (75,100 words) - 16:12, 20 May 2022
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 109 (section Current consensus for adding wikilinks within quotations)the passive voice, but that is mostly for persuasive writing. In some situations, such as scientific writing, it's better to use the passive voice ("The...586 KB (86,054 words) - 06:02, 29 May 2024
- qualified expression of doubt, weasel words, and passive voice. MOS should explicitly discourage passive voice as well as prepositional editorial expressions/qualifiers...246 KB (36,111 words) - 15:50, 4 February 2023
- introduce an irrelevent injunction against the passive voice: 'and it is certainly better than using the passive voice: "When the eyes are opened, something is...32 KB (5,020 words) - 10:15, 5 March 2022
- voice, and something else (e.g. composed of, made up of) be used for passive voice. Dictionary.com Encarta Ask Oxford Merriam Webster Online American Heritage...27 KB (4,015 words) - 15:24, 4 February 2023
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section/Archive 2 (section Removed passive voice from the lead paragraphs)so people come to this article to obtain direction. Writing in the passive voice in the first paragraph does our editors a disservice, I think. I think...152 KB (22,532 words) - 13:27, 8 August 2021