I'm not sure if we should add text to this article, it might interfere with the Special:Maintenance functions (just as we shouldn't add extra text to redirects) -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 04:43, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- I'm new to wikis so I'm not sure what it would mess up, but I just think having a list that calls other spellings inaccurate without an explanation is the kind of thing that gives the USA a bad reputation. If it was alternative spellings or something like that I could understand, but grouping authorisation with Rodenberry requires some kind of note. Ben Sisqo 04:46, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- Please put any notes in Memory Alpha:List of useful redirects -- that is where actual links to any non-American English spellings will be.
- I don't think it is rude at all to use the List of common misspellings for its purpose -- to list the correct American English terms we would like to see the others replaced with on the site. The Special page i linked above has a subfunction that uses this list as a library file to search for the terms -- the list itself is a data page, not a presentation piece.
- I'm just following a policy which was stated by the site's founder. I'm a little puzzled why it would be offensive that we are writing in the same language from different sides of an ocean. -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk 04:53, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)
Should we add other words that American arbitrarilly decided to change to spelling of, ie honour, metre, favour, centre ect. ? Jaz 03:47, 28 Sep 2005 (UTC)
- Yes.
- (BTW, the language i've spoken and written my whole life, American English, was changed from the European version over 200 years ago, around the time of the American Revolution. How is this "arbitrary"? Who cares?) -- Captain Mike K. Barteltalk
Omelet/Omelette
Well, I don't know about the question of "proper" spellings -- personally, I think most Americanizations such as honor and maneuver make things easier on people like me who speak it as a second language, although I know that wasn't the issue in question -- but is omelette the American spelling? I honestly don't know, but most American changes removed letters, so this seems backwards. Makon 02:08, 2 Nov 2005 (UTC)