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British vs. US spelling

Hi, Maxim! I reverted all your spelling changes to the articles. As per this Wikipedia guideline, spellings should not be changed from British to American (or vice versa) unless strong national ties to the topic exist. In all other cases, the spelling chosen by the first major contributor should be used. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 7, 2010; 14:58 (UTC)

Maxim, once again, please do not change the spelling for no other reason than your personal preference, as you did here. If you are not sure how WP:ENGVAR applies, please ask around and when in doubt, simply leave the spelling already used in the article (and try to use the same spelling when adding bits). Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 8, 2010; 13:43 (UTC)

You are quite right on the first two points and yes, of course you can use a variant of English of your choice when creating content. The caveat you are missing is that in articles without US/UK ties (such as those about Russia) you are expected to conform with the variant the first major contributor to that article chose. If the article is already using the US spelling, you are expected to use US spelling as well, even if you are expanding the article ten-fold. It just so happens that most of the existing articles about Russia use the US spelling, which is why I run into the necessity of correcting your edits so often. Hope this clarifies the issue. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 8, 2010; 18:37 (UTC)

Just wanted to remind you that the above still stands. Thanks.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 28, 2011; 14:56 (UTC)

Yes, but that variant is supposed to be the one which the first major contributor to the article had chosen.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); March 28, 2011; 19:04 (UTC)

June 2010

In a recent edit to the page Sergey Mironov, you changed one or more words from one international 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 subjects exclusively related to Britain (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 other English-speaking countries, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the appropriate variety of English used there. If it is an international topic, use the same form of English the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to the other, even if you don't normally use the version the article is written in. 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 Wikipedia:Manual of Style. If you have any queries about all this, you can ask me on my talk page or you can visit the help desk. Thank you. RolandR (talk) 15:05, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

More violations of WP:ENGVAR

Hi. It's long past time for you to stop changing American spellings to British spellings when the article doesn't satisfy the requirements of WP:ENGVAR as you did at Polish Immortal. This has been explained to you several times, so you need to modify your behavior. Quale (talk) 07:43, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Still more violations of WP:ENGVAR

Please read, understand, and follow the requirements of WP:ENGVAR. You don't edit very much, but you insist on violating this guideline repeatedly anyway as you did yet again at Russian Chess Federation. Quale (talk) 03:53, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Chessvegas

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Please note, The article that was created when you moved the page (Chessvegas to ChessVegas) has been deleted, the deletion notice on the page listed above has changed in that it now requests the deletion of a page that redirects to content no longer on Wikipedia. Thanks Colofac (talk) 09:11, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

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