Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-1515914-20200830073434/@comment-6697950-20200830080941

The wiki has rules. One of these rules is: "Do not change British spelling to American or vice versa. This wiki accepts any valid English spelling, so please look up a dictionary before changing the spelling of words.". It's even bolded.

I simply enforced the rule. I do the same when someone goes around changing American spellings to British ones for no reason. Granted, that only happens once in a full moon (I only remember one such instance over years on this wiki, to be honest), since Americans seem to be the only ones having trouble realising that there's a world outside of their own country.

I used to just post warnings on first infractions of this rule, but after years of experience, I realised that 1) the people who go around changing British spellings to American ones never actually contribute anything of actual use in the end, so all my warning notices are just a wasted effort (especially since British/American spellings is the very first thing mentioned in the welcome message that the wiki automatically posts for each new user anyway); 2) I got sick and tired of Americans calling British spellings "errors" simply because they don't realise that English isn't "American"; 3) if the edit only contains junk changes, rolling it back keeps the feed cleaner.