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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-11 21:23:47
Message-ID: b8ceeef70606111423y46bc1e0ex16fdb58a64793a4e () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6/11/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge@telus.net> wrote:
> As a user of Canadian English I find it best to have a compromise hybrid
> where some words will have an affinity to AmE and others to BrE,
> although any single word should be spelled consistently throughout an
> article.  Insisting on all American or British spelling is really just
> another form of POV pushing.

Hmm, interesting idea. There is something inconsistent about saying
that Wikipedia supports all forms of English - except within the one
article. It would perhaps be better to allow freely mixing spellings
like this. The downside is that it would be harder to tell when
someone is changing a spelling to be obnoxious. If someone deletes
"behavior" and paraphrases to write "civilised people", is that
changing from Am->Br?

Steve
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