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This article uses British/Commonwealth English dialect and spelling.
Despite originally using American spelling, this article has used British/Commonwealth English since 2003, and general consensus is that it should remain that way. Even though this is a technical breach of Wikipedia policy on non-linked national dialects, WP:MOS states that if an article has been stable in a given style, it should not be converted without a reason that goes beyond mere choice of style. Further debates on the matter serve little toward improving the encyclopaedia.

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Why do we use the British spelling honour and not the American spelling honour. I would presume many more Americans use wikipedia than non-Americans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwood89 (talk • contribs) 04:07, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First, I wounld't be so sure that "many more" American than non-America use Wikipedia, I 'd like to see the stats. Second, in the whole English language world more places (including Canada) use "Honour" instead of "Honor". In any case for the sake of standardisation, if you are to change it to "Honor", Wikipedia ought to change to others such "Neighbor" instead of "Neighbour" etc. Comment added by Sea Hobbit (talk • contribs) 15:51, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Because it has been like that for a long time (although it was Honor originally), and "general consensus is that it should remain that way". --Joshua Issac (talk) 14:40, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious, but why was it changed in 2003? --Tocino 20:37, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Someone decided to violate the rules and no one stopped them. (logs: honor, honour) --Joshua Issac (talk) 23:24, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Honor

Well change it back to its original form! To check majority preference - do a Google search of honor and honour and you will see a very clear preference of more than 10 to 1 for honor!

The consensus is to keep the current spelling. Google search did not return 10 times as many results for honor than honour (so no 10:1 ratio), but it did return just under 3 times as much. However, the article will use honour unless there is enough consensus to change the spelling. --Joshua Issac (talk) 18:26, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And the box says, "Further debates on the matter serve little toward improving the encyclopaedia." --Joshua Issac (talk) 18:27, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Let me explain why its Honour. Its the English language (English language, England - give you any clues?) Therefore the American regional variation of the English language comes second so English proper on a site such as Wikipedia because it is just that, a variation of the English language, a language which originated, developed and continues to do so in England.

Removed paragraph

This anonymous edit removed a paragraph, which I was just going to replace, but I notice it was entirely uncited, so I'm just posting here, in case someone wants to do some kind of follow-up. -GTBacchus^(talk) 15:42, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored it partially, since the article is tagged with {{Globalize}}.--Joshua Issac (talk) 20:04, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lost, Aberdeenshire?

Why is Lost, Aberdeenshire in the See Also section? Did I miss something? --PokeYourHeadOff (talk) 01:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. Tomasz W. Kozłowski (talk) 22:27, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In culture

I think a section on the role of honour in culture (medieval, Japanese etc.) might be interesting. Tomasz W. Kozłowski (talk) 22:27, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]