User talk:76.133.244.148

February 2024
Hello. In a recent edit to the page Higgs boson, 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 first 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. Remsense 诉  03:18, 12 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Then we need to get some hillbillies on here to write brand new important articles in their regional dialect. ::snortlaugh:: The person who wrote "colour" in the Higgs Boson article was not faithfully copying that word's spelling from its source, which is indeed written in American English.  In that sense "they, in turn, should respect yours" was not followed by them in that moment, despite what the Ministry of Style might say. 76.133.244.148 (talk) 03:23, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Outside of direct quotes, which should not be altered, what matters is consistency within a given article. While articles with strong national ties are generally written in their local variety of English—such as Cantonese opera being written in Hong Kong English—the solution that causes the least fights over the years is to stick with whatever the original author did most of the time, basically. (As an American, I personally like to write articles with Oxford spelling, but I'm weird.)
 * If you have any more questions or comments, feel free to let me know, cheers! Remsense  诉  03:29, 12 February 2024 (UTC)