__/ [ [H]omer ] on Sunday 04 March 2007 15:00 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Peter Kai Jensen spake thusly:
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>
>>> Also, standard spelling would be good!
>>
>> I'm assuming you mean the difference between English dialects, right?
>> That's a tricky issue indeed. The policy seems to be that if no good
>> reason exists for it being in one particular dialect, go with the style
>> used by the first contributor and ensure consistency within the article.
>> The relevant policy can be found here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ENGVAR
>
> Actually, IMHO the correct way to do it would be to have:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org
>
> ... for proper English, and:
>
> http://us.wikipedia.org
>
> ... for American English, but given the differences are relatively
> minor, it probably isn't worth it, unless we can gather sufficient
> support (read: contributors) to do the actual work.
>
> I can live with a few missing vowels, and obscure references, for the
> sake of having access to this excellent resource.
What about indexing, Google juice, and other related issues like linking
fragmentation, collisions...?
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