Board Thread:Admin Announcements/@comment-5843134-20140803080907/@comment-24026943-20140803090424

DaGizza wrote: I support a native English rule. I think it will cause the least amount of outrage in the long-term. It seems to work pretty well on Wikipedia.

For non-native English speaking areas of the world, the options are 1) to keep the dialect as the same as what the article was originally written in (for example, if a micronation has declared its dependence from France and the article was initially written in Canadian English, let it continue to be written using Canadian English norms, and if a nation has seceded from Japanese territory and was originally written in South African English, again maintaining it in the original variety of English isn't that hard) or 2) create a blanket rule (either British or American) for non-native areas. So the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and possibly South Africa, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Philippines, Ghana, etc. are not affected but Germany, Russia, Antartica, etc. will have to be written in the agreed English variety (which is currently British but could change to American as you said). I agree with this, this will make everyone happy.