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One thing I’ve noticed when I’m editing NAB is that some articles use British-English (for example, colour and favourite). This is very common in articles - and I even noticed it when I was editing around the site before I became a booster. Should I change these words to their regular English spellings, or what else should I do?

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This was one of the first mistakes I made when I joined the site. I even have a story about editing a British girls spellings and she would change them back from English after I left here a lot of coaching templates. Later I received a message from BR saying both were acceptable:wink:Don’t fix them, just leave em be.

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Thanks Marina!:wink:I’ll be sure to keep that in mind, whether I’m boosting articles, patrolling recent changes, or just editing around the site, and I see those words.

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This article explains everything: http://www.wikihow.com/Choose-Which-English-to-Use-on-wikiHow You should also stay consistent with the English you use. For example, if editing an article that uses Brtish spelling, use “colour” instead of “color”.

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Once, I changed ‘colour’ to ‘color’, but I explained what I had done to the author. She took it pretty well.

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@SquirrelKitten You don’t need to change “colour” to “color” since both are correct spellings:slight_smile:

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British is technically regular English, you know - I mean, look: England, English