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Talk:Halifax Explosion (view source)
Revision as of 05:22, December 17, 2016
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:Okay... I'm officially confused: [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harbor harbor] is the American, common spelling. [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harbour harbour] is listed as the British spelling (and also in the bottom 30% of words in popularity). Not sure which battle/where you are referring to, but if it was on CP, I wasn't around then, obviously. :/ I'm not trying to marginalize your time here--I could look back, but I believe you've been here since 2006, when CP started. I value your corrections, and try to follow them. However, they usually look to me like curve balls in an otherwise predictable game. I'm sure there are reasons which you have seen in your time here, but sometimes I feel like I should start a directory of quirks to look out for and protect... --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup><small>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</small></sup> 01:45, 16 December 2016 (EST)
:Okay... I'm officially confused: [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harbor harbor] is the American, common spelling. [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harbour harbour] is listed as the British spelling (and also in the bottom 30% of words in popularity). Not sure which battle/where you are referring to, but if it was on CP, I wasn't around then, obviously. :/ I'm not trying to marginalize your time here--I could look back, but I believe you've been here since 2006, when CP started. I value your corrections, and try to follow them. However, they usually look to me like curve balls in an otherwise predictable game. I'm sure there are reasons which you have seen in your time here, but sometimes I feel like I should start a directory of quirks to look out for and protect... --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup><small>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</small></sup> 01:45, 16 December 2016 (EST)
::First; my first CP edit was in May 2007.
:Now; cutting to the chase.....
:'''American v. British spelling.'''
:There was once a CP Sysop named Philip J. Rayment. Apart from being a true and valiant warrior for truth as he saw it on the anti-evolution front, he was Australian. Being Australian, he was usually polite (don't laugh, some of us are) and would gently revert some "iggorant" Yank's change from Brit to Yank spelling saying ''reverted your correct spelling to my correct spelling.'' During 2007 and 2008 he and others including me gained the ascendency Indeed, as late as some time during this last year or so I invoked the PJR clause and Andy came on board to ask me to give Phil. his (Andy's) regards "next time I see him."
:My policy on this is:
::if it's a article or associated talk page that has an American subject and spelling I use American spelling.
::if it's an article or talk page that is about a non-American subject then I use my own Australian (British) spelling.
::if I come across an article on a non-American subject that has always had American spelling I leave it be.
::if I come across a recent change to American spelling on a non-USA article I revert it. Hence my Halifax Harbo(u)r revert.
:This is the first time in at least six or seven years a revert of this nature has been questioned. However a Bot has not been involved until now.
Cheers [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] ([[User talk:AlanE|talk]]) 00:22, 17 December 2016 (EST)