Talk:Non-tariff barriers to trade/Archives/2019

English style

User:John Maynard Friedman said in a WP:BRD revert that the article has a long history of using en-UK, but the spelling in the article is American spelling. I haven't changed the spelling in my edits; I'm just commenting. --Daviddwd (talk) 00:46, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

My main point is that tagging the article with {{Use American English|date=January 2019}}{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}} should be discussed beforehand, not just slipped in without even an edit note. It looks like claim-staking.

Wikipedia convention is that we use en-us for obviously American articles, en-uk for obviously British articles and everything else stays in the dialect that it started with. Citations use what they used originally and should not be altered to match editor preferences.

Not that it matters but the article as it stands is remarkably free of obviously EN-US (or EN-UK for that matter) – the only obvious one is "Licenses" rather than "Licences". ("Localization" with a Z is valid in en-uk too, though rare is still preferred by the OED), However, as this article started with en-us spelling, so it continues. But meantime, in the absence of a spelling war, there really is no need to mark the lamp-posts. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:51, 2 January 2019 (UTC)