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| + | == Cultural Spelling Prejudices == | ||
| + | This wiki does not favour/favor one culture's spelling over another. So please stop doing so. Game terms are ''arguably'' American-centered, but I'm not sure that the term "labour/labor" is found anywhere in the game itself. The policy is to allow "first come, first served" on any given article, and not pretend that one spelling is "right" where the other is wrong, nor that one serves a larger majority of Users better, and so certainly not to slavishly edit every reference according to the article title. Appreciate the effort, but you can stop now, thanks.--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 02:54, 23 February 2010 (UTC) | ||
| + | :Actually, the game does use the term "labor" rather than "labour", at least according to the [[string dump]]... --[[User:Quietust|Quietust]] 03:11, 23 February 2010 (UTC) | ||
| + | ::Okay, thanks, wasn't sure about that, but even then, referring to that string dump is different than talking about a "labouring dwarf". Users need to accept that "flavour/flavor", "colorful/colourful" and "favorite/favourite" are cultural prejudices, nothing more, and one is not "right" or "wrong", nor can it be. This is not an American site, not a British site - the site's international - it's called the World-Wide-Web for a reason. Consistency within an article regarding that article's name is fine, but not a personal pogram against one spelling or the other.--[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 03:46, 23 February 2010 (UTC) | ||
| + | :::One question. Why the attack? Consistency causes no harm, and it makes searching much easier if we can agree on one simple, logical spelling. (I have nothing against the English English (as opposed to American English) way of adding an unnecessary "u" or French with its strings of not-pronounced letters. I just figure that logic stands above tradition.) But, of course, I'm putting this up for humans to read. No common sense, no general ability to come to a group realization of reason. Or rather, minimal general ability. It's very rare, but not nonexistent. | ||
| + | :::Again, consistency causes no harm. | ||
| + | :::It does bother me that the pages I fixed for consistency have been reverted, but I'm not stupid enough to fight the sysadmin or anyone similar. All it'll get is a banning for me and a sense of superiority for the people with special privileges. I'll not go on a rampage of logic again, outside mercilessly correcting bad grammar when I stumble across it. | ||
| + | :::-- [[User:Thromordyn|Thromordyn]] ~7:48, 24 February 2010 (GMT-5) | ||