User talk:PeterWard Alpharetta

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Point raised on spelling
In a recent edit to the page Druid, 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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 * That is a point of view, SudoGhost, but Christianize and civilize are perfectly acceptable in British English as well as in American English, and, indeed, are rather better. See Oxford spelling. Moonraker (talk) 17:49, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * All spelling variations are "points of view", but spelling conventions aren't changed in articles just because we think a different version is "better". See WP:ISE, WP:ENGVAR, and specifically WP:RETAIN. - SudoGhost 17:51, 6 June 2013 (UTC)