User talk:Lalaliv314

Action potential
Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy yourself here. One of Wikipedia's greatest attractions to me is that I get to cooperate with hundreds of editors across the globe. Wikipedians hail from North America, Australia, Europe, Africa -- you name it, Wikipedians are there. That's what brings me to your page. I noticed your recent edit at Action potential in which you changed depolarisation to depolarization noting in your edit summary that this was a spelling error. I myself was tempted to make such changes when I first came onboard, but when I began to appreciate what a global effort Wikipedia is, I realized that British English spellings like depolarization, haemoglobin, anaemia, etc., shouldn't be discarded as typos just because they differ from the American spelling. In fact, Wikipedia even has a policy on this; see Manual of Style. (Wikipedia policy is for an article to use whichever spelling variant was used when the article was initially created. Interestingly, this means that you were actually correct in changing depolarising to depolarizing -- this is because [I believe] the Action potential article uses American English throughout. My goal in writing to you isn't to say that the change was wrong, but rather to address your rationale for making the change, which hopefully has changed in light of this new information.) I hope you find this useful and that you will make use of it in your future contributions to Wikipedia. Cheers, and happy editing! --David Iberri (talk) 15:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)