User talk:Huey45

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In a recent edit, you changed one or more words from one international 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 subjects exclusively related to Britain (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. If it is an international topic, use the same form of English the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. 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 Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, just ask anyone on Wikipedia and they will help you. Thank you. —Angr 05:28, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

American spelling isn't wrong just because it isn't what you learned at school. There's a link in the message above to Wikipedia's practice regarding national varieties of English. Changing American spelling to British spelling, unless the article is about a topic related to the UK/Ireland/Australia/etc., or unless the original author of the article used British spelling, is considered disruptive editing and can get you blocked. —Angr/talk 15:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I never said that American spelling is wrong just because I didn't learn it. Please don't continue to think that this is the case. The reason why I say that it is wrong is that there was originally only one way to spell each word but Americans thought that many words had illogical or difficult spelling, so they "changed" it, even though they had neither the authority nor a good reason to do so. They may have thought that some words were spelt in an illogical manner, but they probably didn't realise that these words were spelt in a very similar way to Latin and/or French words with similar meanings, which would make it easier for other Europeans to learn English.

You obviously think that I am scared of Wikipedia either ignoring me or blocking me from editing anything. If Wikipedia doesn't care about having an encyclopaedia that is riddled with both spelling errors and grammatical errors, then I don't care about Wikipedia. Also, you seem to be implying that when Wikipedia says that articles should be kept in American English if they were originally written in American English, they are perfectly correct and that it would be ridiculous for anyone to think that it should be done differently. The people who run Wikipedia are American, so they would almost certainly be biased and agree with you.

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The problems with American English do not just include spelling; there are many words that are spelt the same but pronounced incorrectly by Americans, such as "Lieutenant" and "Aluminium". Maybe you haven't noticed, but what you call "gas" is actually a liquid. I know that it's short for "gasoline", but nobody else calls it that either. Huey45 13:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incivility, vandalism

Please be aware your behavio(u)r is out of line. Changing spellings of articles to your preferred variant can be considered vandalism, as are edit summaries such as "Correcting spelling mistakes". (If you feel strongly about "British" spellings put a userbox on your page that says so, or start some useful new article written in them, but don't do this kind of thing -- it's already been discussed to death, and you're unlikely to change anyone's mind with your insights.) Your comments in several places are pretty clearly incivil, regardless of whether you were joking -- it's not how it appears on the page. Please do not do this again, or you will likely be blocked; not necessarily by me, but someone surely will. ProhibitOnions ^(T) 18:52, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

wtf? When did I ever write any jokes? I have been improving the encyclopaedia for a very long time now and you're telling me to stop correcting spelling errors? Almost all of the spelling and grammatical errors that I have fixed had been wrong in all "versions" of English. I was only arguing with the ignorant guy because he started it. I made many corrections in an article, including spelling mistakes (some of these words were not even written in the American way; they were definitely errors). On the same day, he edited the article by changing all of my words to American spelling and told me that just because I learnt to spell words the original way, I shouldn't stop him from using "American" English, even though that's not what I had been doing. I wrote the new words in the proper way because that's the only way that I know. Why would I try to learn the American way to spell words when I can already spell them correctly? It's illogical.