Wikipedia:Simple talk/Archive 85 Suggestion
And they make great use of interviews and opinion columns, which we can not. The current Encyc Brit is completely transformed from its stuffy predecessors. None of this has to do with objectivity. It's a mistake to think that the passive voice is more objective than the active voice. Objectivity is acquired by the production of evidence and reasoning. My argument is, because we are on an informal medium, and addressing people of limited linguistic capability, the friendlier our style the better.