User:Trafford09/Word endings

Word endings ( ~ise versus ~ize)
Hiya.

I notice from your edits that you prefer the British English endings of words (e.g. ~ise) to the American English endings of words (e.g. ~ize). That's only natural - to prefer what your country prefers - and actually I share your preference. But I've now got used to the fact that Wikipedia is a multi-country collaboration. As such, it has articles written by English and American readers, and maintained by both. Therefore, Wikipedia has developed some consensus guidelines, for us all to follow - or else we'd be forever changing ~ize to ~ise, and vice versa.

I can summarise the relevant guidelines for the above: If an article has a clear US base, we leave it as US spellings. If an article has a clear UK base, we leave it as UK spellings. If an article has no clear base, we leave spellings in the format that was chosen by the original creator of the article, and anything we add, we add in that format, so that the article is consistent.

This way, we don't get into prolonged Edit Wars, with reverting from one format to the other. The spelling guidelines are just some of the ones on Wikipedia. The rest are here. But don't worry if you fall foul of them - it takes us all a while before we get to know of them all.

Please don't be put off editing here - "Be Bold"! I hope you enjoy Wikipedia. Regards,