Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 26, 2009

Question..."U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland." or "U2 is a rock band from Dublin, Ireland."? —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 19:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was just coming by to ask that. It should be the latter, correct? ~~Adding a {{editprotected}} request.~~ NW (Talk) ^{(How am I doing?)} 01:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, these pages aren't protected now. However, article itself uses "are", so I think that is correct. I'll do a bit of digging as to why though; this confuses me. NW (Talk) ^{(How am I doing?)} 01:15, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, "are" is used because of the vagaries of British English, according to Awadewit. NW (Talk) ^{(How am I doing?)} 01:17, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]