[TopAce]

I am just wondering. In the Star Wars Wiki, there is a rule to use American English (which I usually ignore ). I think we should have an agreement on this, because I edited Black Wolf's manoevrability to maneuverability and he changed it back. What you need to know is that Australian English basically demands British orthography, so BW was correct on it, in a way. I know that I had been using British spelling and punctuation so far and many of you know American English better. So I think we should write in American English to make it the easiest for most of you and keep things in order. I am quite capable of checking spelling and punctuation, since this is what I study at University.

Any comments?

[Nuclear1]

I don't think it really matters. It depends entirely on the writer, and there really aren't that many differences. The maneuverability spelling is really the most drastic, but colour is really only one letter longer than color.

[StratComm]

Again, I'm very much against a) too many rules and b) trying to derive anything for this Wiki from the Star Wars wiki.  They are two different animals.  I personally don't think it matters much, but more people know how to write in "American" english than know how to correctly use "British" english so, like the internet, American should be the defacto standard at least.

[CP5670]

If there is a rule then American English should be used, as it's the internet standard and FS2 itself uses it, but it shouldn't be a big deal to have both used for different articles.

[phreak]

how about do something as follows:

cent-er/re
hono(u)r

[Eishtmo]

I speak only English and bad English, and I'm not very good at either of them.

Let's just avoid broken English, and the world will be a better place.

[WMCoolmon]

how about do something as follows:

cent-er/re
hono(u)r

You're joking...right?

I say, use the American spelling for Maneuverability, everything else can be whatever. Although keep in mind that Americans tend to be less aware of the British spelling of words than vice versa.

[Kamikaze]

Just keep it consistent within a given article.

[Goober5000]

Just keep it consistent within a given article.

Best solution.

Whoever creates (or heavily rewrites) an article is going to write it in his particular dialect of English.  So let's just say that whoever creates an article determines the spelling it will use.

[Nuclear1]

British English really isn't that different to tell apart from American English anyways. Slang is really where it gets tricky, so as long as we don't have any articles describing the Aeshma as minging or the Colossus' captain as a wanker than I think we have ourselves a winner.

[Black Wolf]

Just keep it consistent within a given article.

Exactly. I'm going to use British english anyway, and TBH I'd prefer peole didn't edit my articles to change it to American or whatever. That said, as long as spelling is consistent within articles, I'm not fussed if others use American.

[Sandwich]

...we have ourselves a winner.

That's SUCH a British saying.

That said, I think we should stick with what :V: used in FS1/2.

[WMCoolmon]

Or we could always go with Esperanto.

[vyper]

Interesting.

[Carl]

It should all be written in 1337 speak.

[phreak]

how about do something as follows:

cent-er/re
hono(u)r

You're joking...right?

Could I have said use Engrish as well

err.  Courd I have said use Engrish as werr

[IPAndrews]

Oh come on. The answer to this is obvious. The rebels use American English and the Empire uses British English.

[WMCoolmon]

So we'd be, what, the Whills?

[IPAndrews]

Yes. If you like.

[NGTM-1R]

Everything should have either a Southern or a Cockney accent.