User talk:Leiser18

British and U.S. spellings for Queen Victoria
Hello and best wishes for the New Year. You might not be aware of a convention at Wikipedia called WP:ENGVAR for Manual of Style. What appeared to you to be misspellings of "rumor" and "tumor" in the article about Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom were in fact the usual British spellings (rumour and tumour) of those words. Since the article is about a British subject and was already using British spellings, the accepted convention at Wikipedia is not to re-spell them, just as an article about Babe Ruth, Duke Ellington or Barack Obama which already uses American spellings should not switch to British spellings without discussion. Since Wikipedia is read and edited by people from all over the English-speaking world, the convention was adopted long before I started editing Wikipedia in order to avoid endless angry, frustrating disputes over spelling and punctuation that would leave a large fraction of the editors feeling excluded or disregarded. —— Shakescene (talk) 05:28, 29 December 2009 (UTC)