User talk:M.S.K.

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[edit] Thank you!

Just wanted to give you a tip of the hat - your recent edits to Civil Air Patrol were spot on. Well done! The article is much improved thanks to you! —SaxTeacher (talk) 18:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copy editing

I noticed that you're Canadian. I reverted your edits to Virginia Tech because they changed acceptable American diction to Commonwealth usage. You were correct in changing "cancelled" back to "canceled" (a Brit who woke up earlier than the rest of us/US "fixed" that word this morning) and "homefield to "home field" (I don't know who initially had that idea), and I will fix those two words as soon as I finish with this. Compound words like "placekicker" and "postseason," however, are standard American spellings (perhaps as a result of the large German influence in American English), and "winningest" is moderately acceptable American usage, particularly in Southern American English. I prefer British-style compounds myself, and "winningest" sounds a bit odd to me too (I speak Inland Northern American English), but Wikipedia standards dictate articles should usually be in a dialect consistent with their subject regions.

No hostility is meant by the reversion. --Dynaflow 17:53, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Taken to the extreme, were I to write Virginia Tech entirely using examples and form similar to what is found in Southern American English, it wouldn't be especially meaningful to much of the world. Thus, I don't think that's an especially well-considered standard. At any rate, the words "placekicker", "postseason" and "winningest" do (much to my dismay) appear in the dictionary, so I concede on those points. --msk 15:23, 18 April 2007 (UTC)