Should this guide follow the rules for writing documentation? --AngelinaBelle 11:05, 3 December 2010 (EST)

Passive Voice, Active Voice, and "You"

I think the Wikipedia Manual of Style is a reasonably good guide.

Wikipedia:Wikipedia:YOU has a good example of avoiding You. There's a secion on contractions.

There is nothing at all on passive or active voice, though there is a section on avoiding instructional style in encyclopedic content. In the "here is what this page does" content, we want to avoid instructional style. In the "how to use this page" content, of course, we want to use instructional style, because passive voice is very awkward for instructional content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Instructional_and_presumptuous_language

--AngelinaBelle 09:01, 28 January 2011 (EST)