On 7/20/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
There's really nothing wrong with passive voice, whatever Microsoft likes to tell you. It gets boring and formal if overused, but a sentence like "7 series are planned" is perfectly acceptable, and even preferable to something awkward like "The producers have planned 7 series".
After "Matrix" became a blockbuster, the producers suddenly announced that they always wanted to make a trilogy. It is certainly interesteting who planned what when in this particular case.
In the JKR case, you might want to use the valuable space (it is not limited by storage on wikimedia servers or bandwith on the way to the computer but rather by the motivation of a visitor to wikipedia.org to read boring, content-poor sentences) for more precise information such as "Bloomsbury will release the seventh part of the series on May 35, 2342".
Along with a reference.
Mathias