Brion L. VIBBER wrote:
I'm quite sure there's a discussion on use of US vs British English buried in an article that's either been moved or is about to be moved into the Wikipedia: space. Or on meta. Either way, I can't find it just now... The gist of what I recall finding once is that all grammatical English is acceptable, but it seems to be a good idea to keep usage consistent in each individual article.
I think that's right.
The Nupedia people had a long boring and pedantic debate about this, and settled on accepting either, and flagging the articles, with eventual plans for "translating". At wikipedia, we aren't so pedantic. If it's good information, and people can comprehend it, that's fine.
Someday, when we get to a situation where we want to edit the wikipedia into a big ole paper book, with "approved" articles, we'll probably wish all the articles were in one form or the other, or else someone is going to have to translate.
--Jimbo