User talk:Quatfizzle

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Spelling
Hi there, Quatfizzle! This is just a reminder that English, Commonwealth and many/most specifically European articles use English spelling, not US spelling.

Common differences include
 * colour, labour etc. not color, labor etc
 * standardisation etc. not standardization etc.
 * double consonants before the "ed" or "ing" eg "equalled" and "equalling" (in the Leonardo da Vinci article) not "equaled" and "equaling".

If you change articles that are written by English writers, they tend to get very cross indeed....

But US articles (and a great many articles of a general nature) have US spelling.

All the best! Amandajm (talk) 06:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)