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Wavelength-division multiplexing, British English + welcome

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. We can always use additional fibre-savvy (fiber-savvy?) technical people.

I appreciate your additions to the WDM article. I did make some minor changes, however. To head off petty little wars over which version of English to use, Wikipedia came up with a guideline that says that if an article is started in American English, it stays in American English (and likewise for articles started in British English). There are some obvious exceptions; articles on uniquely American subjects such as United States Navy will always be in American English while the Royal Navy article will always stay British. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English for the details.

Anyway, welcome again to Wikipedia.--A. B. 06:28, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

In my defense there were both spellings of fiber/fibre on the page when I started to edit it. As the guidelines point out an article is supposed to be in a single version of English. Since pretty much all of Wikipedia's fiber optics pages actually use fiber in the page title I presumed that was the original language. Although if you are interested the optical amplifier page is a mess of fiber and fibre. Even though my native language is British English I have never liked the use of fibre for optics : fibre is something one needs more of in ones diet or character --Dtneilson 07:11, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Not to worry and you certainly don't have to defend yourself -- I was just letting you know. You'd be amazed at the petty little wars that have broken out over this. See (or skim) Talk:Under the Umbrella Tree#Canadian vs. American spelling and Talk:Under the Umbrella Tree#RfC for an example; as for my own philosophy, you can read my own comments at the end of the RfC section. (You might also enjoy some of the uniquely Canadian/American links I posted).

As for the other articles, feel free to fix things as you see them. --A. B. 07:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the link to Talk:Under the Umbrella Tree#Canadian vs. American spelling. It made my laugh and reminded me of the South Park Movie. I think we should be content when articles are written in English and the spellings of the words match at least one accepted version. Dtneilson 00:58, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Optical DPSK demodulator

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You got it, redirects don't work too well w/o the [[braces]] :) -- 64.180.84.87 09:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Charles Clos moved to draftspace

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Your draft article, Draft:Charles Clos

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:14, 30 September 2023 (UTC)