User talk:Postoking

April 2022
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Long and short scale. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Egsan Bacon (talk) 22:25, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.


 * Hello, thank you for being willing to chat.
 * I'll make my case, and let you decide on what you believe is most important.
 * In the name of education, in which I believe is the primary purpose of Wikipedia, I request the incorrect terminology "British English" be ceased.
 * The reason for doing so, while it may help to clarify for those less linguistically oriented, is still not a valid excuse for incorrect terminology.
 * In regards to Languages (and many aspects of daily life) a language derived from another language is given a prefix, to help denote it's current use and derivation.
 * For example, Spanish (spoken in Spain, where it originated) and Mexican Spanish, spoken in Mexico, where it has inherited the Spanish language.
 * It would make little sense to Prefix Spanish with "Spanish Spanish" or "European Spanish" when it does not need, and indeed should not have a prefix.
 * The same is true of English, the language of England and the English nationality. If a prefix was to be used, it would actually more be more correct to use "English English" not "British English", as the British Countries of Wales and Scotland inherited English from England, rather than contributed to it's conception, and as such speak subvariants of it, Welsh English and Scottish English respectively, Prior to inheriting the English language, they spoke Celtic and Gaelic which was eventually phased out through the Union of Crowns of 1603, which joined Scotland to Britain (England and Wales) through a single monarch, unifying the island of Great Britain and later the Act of Union (1707) which created the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and northern Ireland and cemented the common tongue of English to be the primary language spoken throughout the British Isles.
 * Although as mentioned before, a prefix is unnecessary for the origin of a language, if something absolutely must be used to help people understand the difference, a suffix (English-UK, Spanish-Spain etc) for example would be better suited to this purpose. In my original Edit, I replaced the prefix with a suffix instead, which I believe is a better format to differentiate between origins and derivations.
 * I believe Education to be more important than simplification for clarity. But I will leave in your hands from here on as this edit warring is getting us nowhere, and certainly is not helping to educate anyone, which is of course the entire reason any of us are here on Wikipedia. Postoking (talk) 11:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)