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16:05, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, Stevehis390, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:39, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note on British English

Hi, I noticed that in this revision, you stated in your edit summary that you were correcting the spelling of words. However, most of the "misspellings" you corrected were not, in fact, incorrect. They were British English. Per the Wikipedia policy MOS:RETAIN, "When an English variety's consistent usage has been established in an article, maintain it in the absence of consensus to the contrary. With few exceptions (e.g., when a topic has strong national ties or a term/spelling carries less ambiguity), there is no valid reason for such a change." Therefore, if an article is written in British English, keep the British spellings (organise, categorise, capitalise, labour, colour, etc). Hopefully this advice will be useful in the future! Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:22, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]