User talk:Oaklandguy

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In a recent edit to the page Brown Eyed Girl, 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.

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OK
I'm happy with your revert. For consistency, I went back to the article & noticed another place where it was spelled "favorite" (the standard in the US) & I changed it to "favourite" to match the places I previously had edited, and you reverted. Oaklandguy (talk) 21:57, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

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Bedford Forrest
Hi, a while back you contributed to Talk:Nathan Bedford Forrest and I'd like to bring to your attention a proposal to review this article for POV. Over the last few months differing opinions have been expressed on the Talk page concerning the neutrality or otherwise of the article, without a consensus being reached. If the article is still of interest to you then perhaps you would consider paying another visit to the Talk page and maybe joining in the discussion. Thanks FrankP (talk) 13:39, 26 February 2018 (UTC)