User talk:Lisaleelyons1960

In a recent edit, 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 India, use Indian English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author 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. Materialscientist (talk) 00:20, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Please leave the spelling in the form in which it is written: metric measurements do not require a specific spelling, and we have the policy noted above to avoid pointless arguments about things like this. If the temple of Artemis was English I'd support the change. In Greece it doesn't matter. In any case, there is no such thing as "American measurements." There are metric and English units.Acroterion (talk) 01:15, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at User talk:Acroterion. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 03:44, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

I did not 'attack' anyone, I simply berated. Then again that's probably just me using English correctly though. As I already said, I'm not interested in editing or participating any further so please don't feel compelled to reply.

It read like an attack to me, and it wasn't necessary because, in this case, Greece isn't part of America, and the earliest edits were written in British English, so only the rules of Wikipedia need to be quoted to justify changing center to centre in that particular article. In general, though, Wikipedia is an international encyclopaedia, so we have to find a good Wikipedia reason for changing spelling from one variety to another. I've recently changed some British spellings to American to comply with the rules, even though, being British, I prefer the British spellings. Temple of Artemis should use American English because that variety was first used in the article, but Colossus of Rhodes should retain British spelling (and mainly does in "harbour"). Please don't be put off editing just because of misunderstandings on both sides. Dbfirs 13:38, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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