ByzantiumLives
National varieties of English edit
Hello. In a recent edit to the page International Baccalaureate, you changed one or more words or styles from one national 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 a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. 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 Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. The article was was written using "isation" spellings, but the original name used "ization". Please leave it alone Meters (talk) 23:44, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Meters, thanks for that. I'm happy editing in both varieties, as it happens, so like you I do try to get the 'variety' right for the article in question. For the IBac article, the right version of English looks to me like the European rather than American variety, since the organisation developed predominantly in Europe and is still based there, albeit having some customers in the US now too. I'm open to challenge, though; perhaps the talk page of that article itself is the most appropriate place to discuss? ByzantiumLives (talk) 12:23, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- You continue to apply your personal spin on the EngVar policy, which is not recognized under the policy itself. You clearly feel strongly about this, so you should go to the MOS:TIES talk page and argue for a European English variant there. But until that becomes recognized, your changing of EngVar on pages is disruptive editing. Please stop doing so until that policy is changed. Laszlo Panaflex (talk) 14:27, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- An interesting idea, Laszlo, for which my thanks - although there seems little I can do about it if the account is blocked. Incidentally, the edit which seemed to concern you on the Garibaldi article was nothing to do with EngVar, but a correction to someone who had commented upon a historian's political leanings without evidence. Such a peremptory rush to judgement does not look constructive but I am assuming that there is nothing which can be done to challenge or query it, so we'll have to leave it there. A pity; it's nice to help people.ByzantiumLives (talk) 16:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)