User talk:IamDuck1

National varieties of English
Hello. In a recent edit to the page Light-on-dark color scheme, 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. BugGhost 🪲👻 09:04, 11 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi bug ghost. This policy of using the variety of English that the creator used, or of the nationality the character/entity in question belongs to is not adhered to by many Wikipedia editors, clearly seen in articles such as those of NATO, James Corden, Eleventh Doctor, Haggis, England, etc. as well as many other British figures and entities.
 * The simple fact that editors are allowed to use their own variety of English including when the article is about the country of England, and are not corrected, nor are other editors permitted to correct the article in question to a single version of English leads to articles being a mess of different varieties where - in some cases - Britishisms and Americanisms are present within the same paragraph or sentence.
 * I do not believe that British English is respected by the Wikipedia community, considering the egregious nature of some of the articles I have shared with you in their relation to British culture, and therefore their need to be written in British English. I also believe this policy of using a single variety of English is not correct as the Wikipedia community does not hold itself to account when it comes to enforcing the policy. I believe that my correction of the article to a single variety of English was just, and that I have only recieved your communication because I did not use Wikipedia's unofficially preffered American English in my corrections. IamDuck1 (talk) 22:25, 11 July 2024 (UTC)