User talk:Unidentified Body

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Taking the knee, 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 original 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. Lord Belbury (talk) 19:23, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi.

I did see the suggestion to leave it as "soccer" as the article is written in American English. However, the game is already referred to as "association football" in the article, including the heading of the 2nd section where one of the edits took place, so I figured that the contents should match the headings and as such this would be a fine change that would make the language of the article more accessible to readers wherever they were from. I understand that just calling it "football" would be incorrect in this case, but association football is the official name of the game, so makes sense in all forms of English. Feel free to discuss further if you disagree.

Regards,

Unidentified Body Unidentified Body (talk) 21:59, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]