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National varieties of English
Hello. In a recent edit to the pages Rook (chess) and Algebraic notation (chess) 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. Thank you. DBaK (talk) 00:22, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
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WP:ENGVAR
Hi. Sorry to revert you, but please take a careful look at WP:ENGVAR before you do any more editing like those two. If you do make edits like this, you need to be very very sure that you are correctly changing a "wrong" spelling - as defined by ENGVAR - into a correct one. And if you are sure, you need to comment on it in the edit summary so that people are clear what you are doing and why. If your switch is a correct and righteous one then fine! But if you are just doing it because you don't like it it probably won't stick. I'm sorry if this seems mad if you prefer one spelling style but it is the only way to keep the peace around here. So, if I got it wrong with your edits and you had already checked carefully that they were correct, please accept my apologies and feel free to redo them, but please use the edit summary to state this. Otherwise people will assume, rightly or wrongly, that you are on some mad nationalistic spelling crusade, and it will probably not end well. Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 00:30, 27 November 2020 (UTC)