User talk:Beyondfubar

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Causes of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, or Pakistan use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author of the article used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. We don't change spelling in quote. Also since HK generally use British grammar, we don't change HK related article to US grammar and spelling Matthew hk (talk) 23:30, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't realize it wasn't a spelling error. I had assumed it was simply typed wrong, though (sic) would need to be added for a quote that was as such. Thanks! Beyondfubar (talk) 12:58, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Don't even need [sic] if it was a quote with British English spelling on a magazine article that published by a UK-based company, that related to Hong Kong which use (mostly) British English. And the associated article in wikipedia is written in British English. You can read the policy at WP:ENGVAR. Matthew hk (talk) 10:09, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]