Hi there. The Qazi Hussain Ahmad article had mixed spelling, which means that switching to American spelling normally wouldn't be entirely wrong, but the fact that English is an official language in Pakistan, and that Pakistani English is far closer to British English than to American English, makes me think that some version of British English is better. I switched to Oxford English (British, with -ize endings). Hope you'll agree that's reasonable. Please take a look at: Wikipedia’s policy on national varieties of English. Meanwhile, welcome to Wikipedia! --Cultural Freedom (prata) 2006-07-15 10:32 (UTC)

P.S. I've also noticed that you 1) have marked many of your changes "minor", and 2) don't, at least in some cases, note in your edit descriptions that you're changing the spelling. Given that spelling on Wikipedia is an extremely controversial matter, I would recommend not marking spelling changes of any kind as minor, unless a change clearly falls within any reasonable interpretation of the guidelines at the above link. Best, Cultural Freedom (prata) 2006-07-15 11:10 (UTC)

I just reverted your large edit[1] to theEnglish language article. Mainly, your edit made quite a few other changes. It's almost like you based it on an old version of the article. Was this the case? If not, why did you remove the 'Dutch origins' section? And why did you remove the 'online-utility.org' link and add the link to 'www.indianenglishliterature.com'? You also appeared to badly mangle several inter-wiki language links. Are you using an old browser perhaps? Or edit it in an external editor

Before making such large edits on an article, it's best to raise the issues on the talk page. And to make smaller edits based around a single issue so that it's easier for others to see what you are doing. It also helps if you give descriptive edit summaries. Re-using the same terse summary in many edits looks like someone with an agenda. Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point. Imroy 13:26, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies! Yes, I am using an old browser. I only intended to correct someone's previous switch from ize spellings to ise spellings. I'm not sure what went wrong. I thought I looked at the preview carefully. Again, sorry. I'll upgrade my broswer now. Would the Netscape "Fire fox" be a good choice? --Samuel Webster 13:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Firefox would be ideal. When you edit an old revision, your edit starts from that revision and becomes the newest version. You can't actually change someones edit. Imroy 14:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote, in your summary: "rv Samuel Webster's Americanised spelling changes - Article is about an English person". What do you mean? Did you read my edit summary? Seems like an unnecessarily hostile change. Please explain, thanks. --Samuel Webster 13:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From your contributions, you seemed to be changing the spelling in a number of articles to the Americansied "-ize" ending. As a non-American I find this incredibly annoying, especially when it is done to an article about a British subject. I felt that such an article should use British/Commonwealth spelling, not American. That is all. Imroy 14:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It might be worthwhile to learn something about the English language. The -ize endings are not American. Virtually all of them were introduced into the language in the 17th century by an Englishman, Thomas Nashe. Oxford and most academic publishing houses in England prefer this spelling. When a British subject is written using Oxford spelling, it should not be changed to the Australian/"Street British" spelling. Doing so violates wikipedia rules. Correcting those violations is a good thing, oui? --Samuel Webster 14:45, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One last thing. If you look more carefully at my contributations, you'll see I am not "changing the spelling in a number of articles to the ... "-ize" ending. I'm undoing other users' incorrect changes FROM the -ize ending. Oxford English is not incorrect for British topics (if that was the original spelling), and changing to this baby English ("just kidding") -ise spelling violates wikipedia policy. --Samuel Webster 14:59, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I had the same reactions as the above people. Adam Bishop 16:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Which people? Which reactions? Thanks in advance. --Samuel Webster 17:32, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I mean I thought you were needlessly changing British spellings to American spellings. Adam Bishop 18:01, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're not looking carefully enough at the histories. I'm changing OTHERS' spellings BACK. (Aside from one mistake that Cultural Freedom pointed out to me. I was new then. :) ) Still waiting for an answer to the question I posed on your talk page. Thanks. --Samuel Webster 18:45, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your reversion in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was totally wrong. Germans when using English use International English (a variant of British English with BE spellings), never American English. Pushing AE in a topic where it never ever is used is simply wrong. I've reverted your change. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 13:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]