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While I am not oppose to this, my question would be - has it been written using mostly American English and not British English? Soafy234 (talk) 14:29, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
@JacktheBrown, you do bring up a good point. I think that in my opinion, whichever version of English has been used more often regardless when that template/article being tagged to Use British English was placed on this article, the template/article should be retagged/reclassified as necessary. Soafy234 (talk) 14:54, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
I reverted the change made by JacktheBrown because the page has been tagged as 'Use British English' since July 2020; MOS:RETAIN does not say "look at the article and decide which variety of English predominates, and use that"; it says "when ... consistent usage has been established in an article, maintain it in the absence of consensus to the contrary. With few exceptions ... there is no valid reason for changing from one acceptable option to another". I took the tagging in 2020 to have been done in good faith, which perhaps I should not have done; however, the previous revision does indeed seem at a quick glance to be in BrEnglish (neighbouring, licencee, programme etc). I've now looked back at the old history too, though not at every revision(!); British spelling seems to have been established no later than 7 January 2006 (licence, recognisably). I think it would take some very strong arguments to justify a change after all that time (such as demonstrable close national WP:TIES to the USA, which of course there aren't). There's no reason to change the date format from what it's been tagged as for the last four years, either. AxG, what Americanisms are you seeing? – I ran a script to fix those and it found a couple (no more); if there's anything it missed I'll fix that too. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:16, 7 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
