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I strongly object to giving "featured article" status to an article with an improper national varieties of English change by User:GrahamColm in numerous edits in the 2 Nov–5 Nov 2007 time period.
This aricle was already over five years old at the time. It had been a full-fledged, multiple paragraph article using American English for 4 years 10 months since 3 January 2003. This was changed, contrary to long-established MoS rules, without discussion by GrahamColm. Gene Nygaard ( talk) 23:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
GrahamColm is the number 1 editor on Rotavirus; he has now 535 edits on the article. SandyGeorgia is number 2 with 60 edits, and I am number 3 with 49 edits. I prefer American English but I consider it more important that the article be internally consistent and I think GrahamColm has earned the privilege of choosing which English that will be. -- Una Smith ( talk) 15:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
hmmmmm ... most interesting and unproductive way to spend one's wikitime, picking on the English version used in a featured article that was completely abandoned and rewritten with care and consistency. Well, anyway, I support Graham's choice, period. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
On the scale from 1 to "I don't care", this is a ... well... OK, actually, I do care. I care in the sense that it would be nice for logged-in users to be able to see English in their own dialect. For example, it would be pretty easy for someone to write up a script that finds all British variants and changes them to American variants, and vice-versa for the Brits. I say this because the problem will otherwise never resolve itself on its own, unless we declare the American Wikipedia independent from the tyrants of the British Wikipedia. Antelan talk 03:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Archived discussion GrahamColm Talk 12:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Gene Nygaard et al. are displaying extraordinary petulance in their attitude towards this article and the excellent job done by its main author. This kind of disrespect is contrary to WP's main tenets. I see no strong argument that the article should be changed to US spelling (and I've recently twice criticised non-US spelling in US-related FACs, so please don't accuse me of bias on that account). Tony (talk) 16:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
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I strongly object to giving "featured article" status to an article with an improper national varieties of English change by User:GrahamColm in numerous edits in the 2 Nov–5 Nov 2007 time period.
This aricle was already over five years old at the time. It had been a full-fledged, multiple paragraph article using American English for 4 years 10 months since 3 January 2003. This was changed, contrary to long-established MoS rules, without discussion by GrahamColm. Gene Nygaard ( talk) 23:31, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
GrahamColm is the number 1 editor on Rotavirus; he has now 535 edits on the article. SandyGeorgia is number 2 with 60 edits, and I am number 3 with 49 edits. I prefer American English but I consider it more important that the article be internally consistent and I think GrahamColm has earned the privilege of choosing which English that will be. -- Una Smith ( talk) 15:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
hmmmmm ... most interesting and unproductive way to spend one's wikitime, picking on the English version used in a featured article that was completely abandoned and rewritten with care and consistency. Well, anyway, I support Graham's choice, period. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
On the scale from 1 to "I don't care", this is a ... well... OK, actually, I do care. I care in the sense that it would be nice for logged-in users to be able to see English in their own dialect. For example, it would be pretty easy for someone to write up a script that finds all British variants and changes them to American variants, and vice-versa for the Brits. I say this because the problem will otherwise never resolve itself on its own, unless we declare the American Wikipedia independent from the tyrants of the British Wikipedia. Antelan talk 03:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Archived discussion GrahamColm Talk 12:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Gene Nygaard et al. are displaying extraordinary petulance in their attitude towards this article and the excellent job done by its main author. This kind of disrespect is contrary to WP's main tenets. I see no strong argument that the article should be changed to US spelling (and I've recently twice criticised non-US spelling in US-related FACs, so please don't accuse me of bias on that account). Tony (talk) 16:44, 9 April 2008 (UTC)