User talk:Lectel

Spellings
The English Wikipedia follows WP:COMMONNAME rules, not "officialism for the sake of officialism" rules. That is, we don't give a flying hoot what the government of Quebec says it wants, we care about what spellings are or aren't actually seen in the real world. Our rule, which must be followed on here, is spelled out at WP:CANFRENCH: we follow common English usages and spellings, not bureaucratic regulations. We do not have any obligation to obey any "rule" to spell Montreal or Quebec with accents in them in English writing any more than we would have to move our article about Germany to the title Deutschland just because that's it's official name in German, or Warsaw to Warszawa just because that's its official name in Polish — we use the spellings that are most commonly seen in English language sources. Bearcat (talk) 02:11, 8 August 2023 (UTC)