Talk:Haemochromatosis

Crusadeonilliteracy, I am sorry for moving the page, but AFAIK Wikipedia endorses US spelling and I simply arranged for the page to follow US spelling (hemo- instead of haemo-). I personally favour (see?) the UK spelling. Will you please support a move of the page body to hemochromatosis and use haemochromatosis as a redirect? Jfdwolff 10:32, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No, it does not endorse US spelling. Morwen 12:28, Mar 21, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, let's rephrase that: Wikipedia uses US spelling. Could we have a vote on the correct spelling of Hemochromatosis (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/search?sortspec=Score%2Bdesc%2BPUBDATE_SORTDATE%2Bdesc&andorexactfulltext=and&where=fulltext&excludeflag=TWEEK_element&hits=20&searchterm=Haemochromatosis). Jfdwolff 16:24, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

See also American and British English differences, where a number of ae-words are mentioned. As the vote has not received any responses, and User:Crusadeonilliteracy has not responded, I have now moved it to Hemochromatosis. Please do not revert without discussing this on the talk:hemochromatosis page, because this is getting a bit ridiculous. Jfdwolff 20:26, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Jfdwolff, I suggest you read Wikipedia's policy on US vs British spelling before making statements about what Wikipedia does, or does not do.. From Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ:

"People are writing in all sorts of English. However, it is good form to keep usage consistent within a given article. The official policy is to use British spelling when writing about British-related topics, and American for American-related topics. More general topics can use any one of the versions, but should be consistent within the article. "

Nobody responded to your "poll" because nobody needed to. Given that Crusadeonilliteracy was the one who did the work of merging the duplicates, it's up to him to choose which spelling to use.

You also only gave everyone 4 hours to respond to your call for a vote on the spelling, which is entirely unreasonable for a low-traffic page such as this.

-- Cyrius 04:51, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

And see the "Usage and Spelling" section of Wikipedia:Manual of Style, especially:

"If an article is predominantly written in one type of English, aim to conform to that type rather than provoking conflict by changing to another."

-- Cyrius 07:12, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

Hello Cyrius, welcome to the debate. And also thanks for reverting without discussing this nicely on the talk page. Concerning the 4 hour wait, this is factually incorrect. My first message was there for several days, leaving Crusadeonilliteracy plenty of time to offer his comments.

Concerning the correct spelling, Angela was so kind to inform me about the language policy of Wikipedia, without reverting to and fro. Personally I prefer the UK spelling but I was under the impression that Wikipedia was uniformist in its spelling. If this had been discussed, instead of resorting to a revert war, I might have opened my eyes a bit earlier. Jfdwolff 19:14, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Excuse me, I misread so I was off a day. It was 28 hours between your "can we have a vote" at 16:24, 21 Mar., and the move at 20:20 22 Mar. Hardly "several days" for the poll, and still not very long.

I informed you about the language policy and corrected your mistake. Why did I fix it instead of waiting for you to realize your error? Because I'm an insensitive jerk and I prefer having a problem solved quickly to making everybody happy.

Additionally, you copied the wrong version, so an article with UK spellings was at a US spelled title, and that just ain't right.

The real irony here is that I'm from the US, and loathe the UK "ae" spellings. I'm going to let your little edit of one of my comments go as an accident.

-- Cyrius 20:33, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Cyrius. No hard feelings, please. Thank you (no sarcasm) for improving on my UK English. I'm Dutch (living in the UK), so there might be the odd Dutchism there.

I'm really not sure what little edit I made in one of your comments!! I certainly don't recall doing so. Jfdwolff 16:32, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Merged from Talk:Hemochromatosis

Yes, this page was moved from haemochromatosis, because that is the accepted American spelling. There were no responses on the Talk:Haemochromatosis page when I called for a vote. Please do not revert without discussing this on this page. Thank you. Jfdwolff 20:22, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Generally, the Wikipedia convention is to let the originator of the article determine which spelling convention to use. Haemochromatosis was started in August 2002, Hemochromatosis wasn't until a month later. - Hephaestos|§ 04:11, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)