Template talk:Use American English
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"EngvarA spelling" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect EngvarA spelling. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 12#EngvarA spelling until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. --Trialpears (talk) 09:51, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
When to use this template and when not to[edit]
Recently, I came across an editor adding this template to 21 articles covering towns in North Carolina where none of these articles has had issues with non-American English being used. After a brief discussion, it seems that guidance when to use this template and when not to is missing from the documentation.
I think the question arises, should this template only be used where there is a question of what version of English to use is not clear or has been a problem or should it be applied to any/all articles where American English should be used?
My opinion is indiscriminate use of this template where the question of which version to use has not been an issue is somewhere between frivolous/annoying and nativism, but I'd like to hear others' perspectives on this. Thanks. Toddst1 (talk) 18:27, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
Page Notice[edit]
Template:British English shows a page notice in edit mode saying "This article uses British English". This template does not. I'm not sure what causes this to appear, but if a template editor or administrator does, please add a similar notice for this template. IPs are people too (talk) 05:49, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
Display issue[edit]
The template not only doesn't show up on pages, but it overwrites the article's lead paragraph shown when hovering over a hyperlink.
For instance, when hovering over the following link, the description simply says...
`{{Use American English|date=March 2021}}`
...and nothing else.
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— Urro[talk][edits] 18:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- The preview at the moment doesn't show the template, but a snippet of broken wikitext
{{Use American English|date=March 2023}– note that one closing brace}is missing. The wikitext was broken in Special:Diff/1199258656 and then fixed in the next edit. - The preview will fix itself when the cache catches up with the latest version. Previews cannot be purged from cache, as far as I know. —andrybak (talk) 21:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)