User talk:SleepDeprive

US / UK Spellings
Hi SleepDeprive. I see that you occasionally alter some spellings from UK to US English. Don't worry. The ones you have done so far are fine but just I wanted to make sure that you know the rules about this. The main rule is that articles can be in US or UK English. Either is OK so long as it is used consistently throughout the article. Generally, articles about American subjects use US English and articles about European or British Commonwealth (except Canada) subjects use UK English. For articles that are not in either category then either can be used and, once they are written, they should not normally be changed from one to the other. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:01, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

In a recent edit to the page Rainbow, you changed one or more words from one international 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.

For subjects exclusively related to Britain (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to other English-speaking countries, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the appropriate variety of English used there. If it is an international topic, use the same form of English the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. Respect other people's versions of English. They in turn should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. Thank you. --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:23, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Leonardo da Vinci
This article is in British English. Please don't change any words in it to American English, as you did with the word "foetus".

Since I am the third editor to point out to you that changing the spelling of words from British to American English is often a problem, I suggest that you focus your editting on something other than spelling, unless you are on home ground, and fixing athe spelling in articles about American subjects.

Note that as well as British editors, editors from Australia, China, India, Africa and Europe often employ spelling that is closer to British spelling that American.

Note that as a British speller, I use a double "t" in "editting". If you see forms like this that employ a double letter before an "ed" or an "ing" in a place where American English would not usually do so, then it is correct British spelling.

Likewise:
 * "our", not "or" in "colour" etc etc,
 * "ise", not "ize", "isation" instead of "ization",
 * "ph", not "f" in "sulphur" and other scientific terms,
 * "ae", not just "e" in words like "archaeology" etc.

Amandajm (talk) 11:21, 1 June 2010 (UTC)