User talk:Jankrapper$
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English varieties[edit]
Your recent edit summary, on reverting "per cent" to "percent", said that may be true, but there are more users of American English in the world than there are of British English. This is a misconception. I mean yes there are more American English speakers than British English speakers, but it's a misconception that Wikipedia chooses English variety on the basis of popularity: see WP:ENGVAR. The MOS wants only consistency within individual articles, which has the result that the variety of English used in an article is set by whoever got there first. It's not very noticeable, because internationally accepted terms and spellings are preferred, but supposing that an early editor to German nationalism in Austria was an Indian English speaker and had written "early Nazis aimed to do the needful to merge Austria with Germany", the article would stay that way, and if more Indian English terms like prepone appeared in it later on, those would stay as well. In practice the only articles that end up written in Indian English are things like the plots of Bollywood movies, but anyway this is the principle.
Now, Stolitz's whole thing is to go around fixing percent, as an autistic obsession, but only on pages tagged {{use British English}}, which is visible near the top of the article when you hit "edit": see User_talk:Stolitz for a lot of people being confused by this and then deciding it's OK. Card Zero (talk) 13:58, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
August 2023[edit]
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. -- ferret (talk) 17:19, 20 August 2023 (UTC)