[Wikipedia-l] linguistic issues

Khendon jason at jasonandali.org.uk
Thu Oct 17 11:12:21 UTC 2002


On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:07:39AM -0500, Nick Tarasen wrote:
> there?s no stated preference for American or British spelling in wikipedia
> English, as far as I can tell, and I?ve been looking.
I don't remember where it says, but iirc the policy is "Either is fine;
try to stick to one or the other within an article; try to use the
most appropriate dialect - eg, in a page about the UK use British,
in a page about the US use American"

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