User talk:Fildon

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Fildon, and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Deepu Joseph (a.k.a. thunderboltz). Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I appreciate your enthusiasm and good intentions, but seriously... who cares? Why should I sign my posts with four tildes? 'I hope you like the place and decide to stay.' What the hell? This is an online encyclopedia not Barney the Dinosaur's fan club. fildon

Apparently it is not possible to email you--I tried. I wanted to note that "rigor" is the American spelling of "rigour". DanielCristofani 03:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

haha that's so stupid! I'll concede to rigor being an American spelling if and when American becomes a synonym for incorrect. Besides the page it links to spells it as rigour, so if they want to defend their error then they should at least be consistent... which leads me to asking, who are the they that are disallowing the correct spelling of rigour? - fildon

The Rigour article uses the British spelling. Some English-language Wikipedia articles are written in British, some are written in American; Wikipedia guidelines say that each article should be made internally consistent, but that we should NOT try to achieve consistency across the whole of Wikipedia. In particular, when an article written in American English links to one titled in British English, the link should use the American spelling. Incidentally, the tone of your response was reminiscent of this, from a list of exchanges reportedly collected from IRC. DanielCristofani 04:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I obviously can't argue if it is a convention of Wikipedia. However your final sentence was needlessly patronising. I still feel uneasy accepting that in any domain there exist differences in US and UK english. As I see it if the US accepts a spelling of a word that is different to how it would be spelt in the UK then it is most likely that this is a result of the word being corrupted in the US and hence ultimately incorrect. However I am willing to concede to the fact that my opinions do not reflect those of the majority and so cannot expect to be able to exert my will on others. So I was wrong from the start, you made your point (although alittle offencively) and I can do no more than be passive in my belief that 'American' spelling is a mistake. - fildon