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Anglo or American English?[edit]

Is their a seperate wikipedia for the UK? I feel that Wikipedia should have a standardized form of English, and should either use Anglo or American spelling of words such as theatre vs. theater, dialling vs. dialing, etc. to maintain continuity among articles.

While it would be a major undertaking to convert the millions of differing spellings, I feel it would improve the overall quality of Wikipedia, and while technically it would be more discriminant amongst one group, I feel that it would add to the continuity and overall quality of Wikipedia, as well as avoiding misunderstandings such as one group thinking they are typos, or even adopting the spelling which would technically be wrong in their country.

If standardized, these problems would still exist amongst one of the groups, but if it was clearly stated on the Wikipedia English home page that one form should be used at all times(under penalty of death :) ), I feel that in the long run it would lead to a more quality Wikipedia experience for everyone.

Being American, I'm obviously biased to switching to American, due to (I believe) a greater population using American spelling as a first language(although Indians, Africans et al that speak English could quickly turn the tables if you count second languages), as well as the fact that the majority of clashing words are already Americanized, making it simpler to switch from one to the other.

On the other hand, Anglo English came first, and is seen by many as the "official" version of English, and I believe is used by more countries that have large English speaking populations, although usually as a second language, so they would probably be on the Hindi, Afrikaans, etc. wikipedia(except when an article is not available in their native language).

Thoughts? Leave it, change it, vote on it? Cgschmidt3169 (talk) 23:44, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Fairytale of New York"[edit]

Thanks for correcting the typo – I agree with your spelling. You won't find a transcript online because the quote was taken from a TV programme about the song, so I just typed word for word what Shane MacGowan said, hence my spelling error. Richard3120 (talk) 17:23, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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