User talk:Omangk

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Getting started
Hi, Omangk. Welcome to Wikipedia. I wanted to drop you a note to tell you that I've undone a few of your recent edits, and wanted to explain why. Wikipedia has a ton of policies and guidance when it comes to things like regional spelling, abbreviations and the like - two that are particularly pertinent here are WP:ENGVAR, which says in essence, "stick with the brand of English that relates most closely to the subject at hand" and Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers, relating to how dates are written. Because of the former, I changed back an edit where you substituted "football" for "soccer" in an article about an Australian team - Australian English seems to prefer "soccer". I also changed the spelling of "center" back to "centre" in an article about a UK university. And because of the latter, I removed an apostrophe you added to "1580's".

Probably the thing to do going forward is, if you see what looks like a spelling error, unless it's just plain misspelled, you should leave it as is. Or at least check out the Manual of Style to see if your change is consistent with established practices. Good luck editing here and I hope you like it! JohnInDC (talk) 17:31, 5 November 2015 (UTC)