User talk:Briannia Barfield

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Hello, Briannia Barfield, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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English variants
Hi. I noticed that in your edit to Beryl Gilroy's biography you switched the spelling to American English. The rule on Wikipedia is that you generally shouldn't switch articles from one version of English to another, and that when the subject of an article has a strong connection to one type of English, you should use the appropriate form. Since Gilroy was Guyanese/British, you should use Guyanese or English spellings, not American. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:39, 10 October 2019 (UTC)