User talk:StonedSilly

Spelling edit on Devil Facial Tumour Disease
Hi StonedSilly,

I'm just letting you know I reverted your edit on the Devil facial tumour disease page where you changed "stabilised" to "stabilized". That wasn't a typo, it's just the standard spelling in Commonwealth English (which generally uses -ise instead of -ize). If you look at the Manual of Style for National varieties of English the guideline is to keep spelling consistent to one variety of English, either what is already being used or what is relevant to the article. In this case, as you can see from the spelling "tumour" rather than "tumor" in the title, and the fact that it's specific to an Australian animal, Commonwealth English is the preferred variant.

Anyway, I believe that your edit was in good faith and you were trying to help but for future: before you "correct" a spelling error, it's worth checking whether it's actually an error or just the variant of English being used in the article. Happy editing. Hedge89 (talk) 10:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)