User talk:SpellingGuru

American vs British spelling

Please review Wiki policy on British and American spelling. You should be aware that British spelling is completely acceptable in English Wikipedia and should not be converted mindlessly to American spelling. The general rule is consistency, an article should be all British or all American and the subject matter, a British topic normally uses British spelling and American topic uses American, otherwise the spelling of the starter of the article should prevail. Dabbler 12:24, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HMS Orange

As per your request here, List of ship names of the Royal Navy (O-Q) is missing HMS Orange. Kind regards, Benea (talk) 02:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the update. I've already revised the section you have indicated. SpellingGuru (talk) 06:16, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to battleship class articles

In your edits to battle class articles (e.g. Admiral class battleship), I don't understand why you are removing the metric calibre of of some guns (e.g. 6 pdr, 3 pdr), but leaving the unreliable convert template for larger calibre weapons.--Toddy1 (talk) 19:01, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop

Although many of your formatting changes to battleship articles are fine, please stop until you've had a chance to discuss the changes at WT:SHIPS or WT:MOS or both. When you make 100 changes with one edit, then other people make changes after that so that your changes can't be reverted, it's a real pain to have to go through by hand putting each thing back the way it was. In particular, I notice you're getting rid of non-breaking spaces ... was there any consensus for that at WT:MOS? - Dank (push to talk) 13:19, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note, the discussion moved here. - Dank (push to talk) 13:26, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Duh, cuz I forgot, :-(

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