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National varieties of English
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Hello. In a recent edit to the page Mercedes-Benz World, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.
For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.
In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. Lord Belbury (talk) 17:54, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Lord Belbury,
- Thank you for your reply. I have just started editing Wikipedia yesterday as I wanted to add a media reference to a page and Wikipedia suggested I edit the Mercedez-Benz World page after I signed up.
- I am an Australian and would like to know which edit I changed that is not in British English form? I have just read about date formats and accept that adding 'th' and 'st' is not necessary but I did not change the order of days and months. Also, you added an apostraphe that I removed for "kids' area". It is not necessary to have an apostraphe here. For example, we don't write "mens' toilet" or "childrens' menu".
- Regards
- Aaron Ajthunter (talk) 03:22, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
- Ah, you'd changed "programme" to "program" - perhaps both are valid, but "programme" isn't incorrect in British English.
- "Kids' area" is correct, in the same way that we'd write "children's menu", isn't it? It's the area that belongs to more than one kid. Or are you seeing "kids" as more of a descriptive adjective there? --Lord Belbury (talk) 08:51, 23 March 2022 (UTC)