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English spelling

Before changing the English spelling in any more articles you should read WP:ENGVAR in its entirety. DerbyCountyinNZ ^{(Talk Contribs)} 06:28, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I will carefully read that section, and then I think it is advisable I read the entirety of the manual of style. The amount of information, markup, and rules here on Wikipedia is immense, so I appreciate you informing me of that.

I will also go back and fix those alterations I made and take another look once I know the rules regarding regional spelling better.

@Cairnesteak Cairnesteak (talk) 16:02, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Henge, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the first author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. David J Johnson (talk) 10:32, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings!

I very much appreciate you bringing this to my attention, and I will be reverting those changes I made.

That makes a lot of sense, I was a bit confused on how it was handled - but I will read the manual of style, especially the section regarding national varieties of english.

And thank you for the invitation to ask questions, there is a lot to learn here!

I had no intention of disrespecting other people's usages of english - but I can see now that I was. Apologies. Cairnesteak (talk) 16:06, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]