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Christina Kokubo edit
I noticed your edit on Christina Kokubo with the accompanying edit summary, "Assuming American English, the period should be inside the quotation marks."

As I read MOS:INOROUT, Wikipedia's Manual of Style indicates that in this situation the period should follow the closing quotation marks. Perhaps I am missing something.

On a related topic, are quotation marks needed there? I don't think we would usually put a theater's name in quotation marks. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:26, 3 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Good call, I think! At a glance, it seems you are correct. I'll look more closely and act accordingly. I've made well-received changes before, on the basis of whether American or British English dominates a particular article; but I'm not prepared to cite chapter and verse, and I think this guideline probably trumps any of that.
 * Likewise the theater name issue. I confess I did not think at that level. I saw that punctuation and got tunnel vision!
 * Thank you for taking the time to get in touch.
 * Jdickinson (talk) 03:35, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Keeping up with style matters can be difficult. I appreciate your interest in improving Wikipedia. Eddie Blick (talk) 23:56, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

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National varieties of English
Hello. In a recent edit to the page Simple Minds, 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.

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 * Thank you for your thoughtful explanation!
 * I understand (and mean to respect) deferring to national varieties of English. But is “oriented” good practice in both dialects? Is it not British English? (What I’ve looked at tells me that “orientated” is “generally considered an error in American English" but doesn’t tell me how “oriented” rates in British English. This doesn’t mean the latter is acceptable, I guess, so there’s a leap or at least a step of faith there.) If so—if “oriented” does work in both British and American English—then why not opt for it, as the more compact common denominator?
 * Another way of thinking about it is: Did I really change from one version of English to another? (And maybe I did! I stand corrected!) Or did I change from one British English option to another, which happens to also be American English?
 * Is it a usage issue? Is “oriented” valid British English, but just weird somehow? Infrequently heard?
 * Thanks.
 * Jdickinson (talk) 18:32, 13 February 2024 (UTC)