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anon said:
Here's a summary of how Wikipedia handles this, maybe a similar decision here? Wikipedia has discussed this a lot of course... (to death!)
1. The entire article should be consistent (maybe topic in Hunch's case)
2. If the article is about say, a park in London, it will be in UK English, if it's about a theater in Sydney, Australian etc.
3. The first non-stub dialect wins. So if it's a article where #2 doesn't apply, and the first person to write it writes it in American English, it should stay that way.
4. If possible use words that aren't dialect specific, and do as much technical backend stuff as possible to help people find things regardless of spelling.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_...
This is strongly based on the fact that it's the English version of Wikipedia though, and not the American version etc. Wikipedia has language versions, not country versions. If Hunch went another way, and had country versions maybe that doesn't make as much sense.
Posted at: 9AM on April 20, 2009. [ permalink ]
trevira said:
As a UK huncher, I've been consciously deferring to US English spelling, especially since my 'favourite' was corrected to 'favorite'! But I've also been adding tags for both (e.g. jewelry and jewellery) so they can be searchable no matter how you spell it.
So is this the Hunch official policy/style or would it be ok to let UK spellings stand and hope that US readers will still understand them?
Posted at: 4:32AM on April 20, 2009. [ permalink ]
