Board Thread:Admin Announcements/@comment-24485780-20140801102558/@comment-24553414-20140802022722

Sabovia wrote: UCS123 wrote: Sabovia wrote: I'm sorry to tell you, but the "British English rule" is here to stay.

The "Not being allowed to discuss anything dealing with space or other planets if "colonization" is mentioned (yet people can claim Antartica which violates The Antartic Treaty of 1959)" is not actually a rule and neither is "Not being allowed to discuss actions of tribunals and internal affairs regarding ONLY members of any micronation organization." If you guys want everything to spelled the British English way I can understand how you want to increase article conformity with the english microwiki community. But forcing us to use British English word choice is a terrible idea. Since when was baseball ever called rounders? And I have never heard anyone in my life use the term anti-clockwise over counterclockwise. Yes I'm an American and I do respect the usage of British English (I use to live in the Republic of Ireland). However, controlling terminology is unneccessary, especially since it can change the meaning of what you are talking about when put into context.

So if you want to go the British English ONLY route and be unaccepting of other people's word choice, then maybe we should have an American English and British English microwiki community. We already have a community for traditional Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. Of course when putting this topic into perspective, most reasonable people would just drop the British English only rule.

Sabovia, you say that those two things I mentioned are not "actually" rules.... Yet I have been threatened with bans from Admins for being involved in both activities. So to clear things up, am I allowed to do what I did? Most wikis are written in one version of English only. We are helping users learn British English (read this guide).

I don't see why you strongly oppose this rule, we need to help this wiki, and to do so we need some consistence.

So again, the British English rule is here to stay. If you need help changing the variation of English on your article don't be afraid to ask. "I don't see why you strongly oppose this rule, we need to help this wiki, and to do so we need some consistence." Again.... Do you not understand what I mean by terminology AKA word choice? If you guys "think" you are trying to improve microwiki by keeping language spelling the same, okay I understand. HOWEVER whenever I write an article on microwiki, Drug store will never be chemist, parking lot will never be car park, counterclockwise will never be anti-clockwise, soccer (depending on the context) will never be football, baseball will never be rounders lol, and trunk will never be boot. NOW, I will respect that you Admins prefer organisation over organization, centre over center, and colour over color. To be honest, I would think that having a database composed of articles that include multiple english variations would NOT bother any learned person... But whatever.