User talk:Tpoore1

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Hello everyone. I'm still trying to figure out how this stuff works!

[edit] British versus American spelling.

It looks like you're changing spelling from British style to American style. We generally don't do that here. The basic rules are:

• If the article is about a Commonwealth (English, Australian, Canadian, etc) subject, then British spelling is used.
• If the article is about an American subject, then American spelling should be used.
• If the article is about anything else (say, Japan or South America, then the spelling is decided by whoever started the article.

If you jump into an article and change the spelling from one version to the other, you're probably going to annoy somebody. Usually it's best to just leave it the way it is. -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 21:35, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem! I changed this one back. The topic was English soccer, and they spell the word 'organised' instead of 'organized'. I'm not sure what the breakdown is, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are as many Wikipedians from Commonwealth countries as there are from the States. We have this little agreement...they won't use British spelling in an article about New York; we won't use American spelling in an article about London. :-) -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 21:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC)