Forum:Why UK English?

If the founder of Narutopedia chose to take the US spelling from "encyclopedia", then by whom and when was it decided that everything in-wiki was gonna be written in English English? I for one don't get the rationale. All official translations, and most unofficial translations of Naruto are done in North America. Take Sasuke's Paw Encyclopaedia for instance. Are we not unnecessarily giving it a different name than the one Viz gave it?--Karunyan (talk) 17:10, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * The site did begin in US spelling, way before I joined. Later on, when the site had much more content, there was a split, and both spellings were used, even through the same article. Long story short, active members at the time discussed it, in the interest of picking one spelling to be used consistently through the entire site, and ending the revert wars that happened over which spelling to use. People arguing for UK spelling prevailed. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 17:43, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * The translations don't really have anything to do with the wikia as I've mentioned before, they don't influence our actions. The community simply decided to use English UK in the documentation of the information based off the arguments which were presented.--Cerez 365 ™Hyūga Symbol.svg(talk) 17:51, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * British English is more classy anyway.--Elveonora (talk) 17:57, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * It seems more formal doesn't It --ROOT 根 (talk) 18:04, May 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * I've seen all the arguments before, and I've no issue, personally, with using either, or. I was born and raised in Palestine/Israel. My first languages were Hebrew and Arabic, and only later started learning English (GB). So there's a lot of things I type/write, such as colour, centre, etc. Though I did move to the states when I was 13, and so I also mostly use (maybe about a 2/3 ratio) that is English (US). That being said, I think the only argument that matters and the only one we should care about, forsaking all others, is who the larger audience is. I don't know what the ratio is currently, but the last discussion of this, Dan was told by staff that the ratio was 10:1, with the United States having the largest audience. As for either being more "classy" or formal than the other, that's unfounded and false. --Taynio (talk) 18:13, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * British English is the original one, thus proper. No need to Americanize everything in this world, is there it? T_T--Elveonora (talk) 18:20, May 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * It not proper because it is the original (of which, it isn't the original). It is not proper for any reason. Your baseless assertions are frivolous and ignorant. There's so many other things I want to say, but I'm quite ill, and it's taking its toll on my mind. But if you're making that assertion and also from the UK, and meaning them in earnest, then you're very ethnocentric and uneducated, like the whites in the KKK, or, to just throw in Godwin's Law, Hitler. If you meant them in jest, then you should keep such nation or culture bashing out of the wiki, as is general practice for public places on the internet.--Taynio (talk) 18:50, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * Interesting, I'm ill too. No, my intent wasn't to bash any nation. But I'm certain that English Language has Germanic origins, thus it was first. Anyway, it's irrelevant, don't get all angry over minor things--Elveonora (talk) 18:56, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * What the hell is going on here? So people who prefer UK english are equal to racists and nazis? I am not from any english speaking nation either, but I don't give a damn what english we use, if I accidentally write something down in USA english, somebody else corrects it, SO WHAT? It is english after all, making such a big fuss about it is ignorant as well since you can't accept UK english just as the others can't accept USA english. I don't get this whole case at all...94.135.135.179 (talk) 18:58, May 26, 2013 (UTC)

Are people really being likened to racists, and a man who nearly committed mass genocide? Over the fact that we add the letter u to words as opposed to forms? The community at large either decided to use English UK because they thought the wiki would be better off for it, or, like myself, we didn't care because we either used both styles to write or else can use the "spell checker option" available here. You're not doing anything to help the case, accept it change the filter and move on.--Cerez 365 ™(talk) 19:05, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * She think I'm a nazi. Interesting, because in case someone hasn't noticed, I used both US and UK English randomly whenever I feel like it, or even both at once in a single text interchangeably, so the theory is false. There are only 3 things I have a problem with when it comes to America and they can be applied to any other part of the world too in case you are curious, nothing to do with its existence. The part about British English being more classy is just my opinion and it was meant to be humorous, not provoking, not to mention being against Americanization and hating the country are two different things.--Elveonora (talk) 19:11, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * Taynio what nonsense are you talking about, don't even mentions racists or offensive stuff here, many people on this wikia are from many different countrys, I am black so just stop with this yes Its a forum, and the answer has already been solved by omnibender and cerez so don't carry this on --ROOT 根 (talk) 19:14, May 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm also against Americanisation of the series, simply because it does not belong to that culture. For that reason I cannot stand to read MS translations and as bad as they were, I did like the SF manga scans.--Cerez 365 ™Hyūga Symbol.svg(talk) 19:16, May 26, 2013 (UTC)