Talk:Neighbourhood

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I often see the British spellings of words on Wikipedia - "neighbourhood," "colour," "realise," etc. And just curious - is Wikipedia based in the UK? Or are there a lot of British contributors? I hope so. It would just kind of turn my stomach if these are all Americans trying to sound worldly. =)

Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English, both American and Commonwealth spellings are allowed on Wikipedia (which is, incidentally, based in the U.S.). In cases like this one, where the term being defined is not specific to any particular English-speaking country, the rule of thumb is to follow the spelling of the first author. In this case, that was the Commonwealth spelling neighbourhood, so I have moved the article back there, and neighborhood is a redirect. Please do not move this page to neighborhood, and please do not ever move any pages by cut-and-paste. Thanks! Angr/talk 22:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to suggest that this page be moved back to the American spelling due to the apparent lack of any British context in this article. This seems like a reasonable request, which I will carry out unless there is a response here soon. _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐  20:46, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Per WP:ENGVAR, this should not be moved away from a stable title to change to a different regional spelling. The topic is not one which only applies to North America, even if there isn't any specific information in the article related to places that use Commonwealth English. This is both the established and the original title. Dekimasuよ! 03:28, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I see you've filed a WP:RM request, but you claim there that "neighborhoods are predominantly an American entity". Do you mean that as "recognized municipal division"? I'm not aware of widespread official recognition of "neighborhoods", but I could be wrong. In a general sense, of course, there are neighborhoods everywhere. Dekimasuよ! 03:32, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

In short, I believe that when one thinks of a neighborhood, one thinks of the quintessential nest of American homes that has become connotative of the term. Thus, I must stick by my opinion, even if the word appears in multiple dialects. _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐  05:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Maybe. If "one" is American. Nests of African homes are just as quintessential, you know. -GTBacchus^(talk) 22:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

If nothing else, neighbourhoods are as much part of Canadian life as neighborhoods are of American life, which would be enough to refute your claims even if the concept were peculiar to North America, which it isn't. --Stemonitis 07:10, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

• I must also oppose this proposed move, per ENGVAR. The idea that "neighborhoods" are unique to the United States is just mind-blowing. --Groggy Dice T | C 23:10, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
  • In the physical sense, I do not believe whatsoever that they are unique to the United States. However, in the grand scheme of it all, a neighborhood has come to become a more American concept. Plus, the article has nothing to do with "Neighbourhoods," just "Neighborhoods." _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐  23:14, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
    • What's your evidence that "in the grand scheme of it all", neighborhoods are more American? What knowledge do you have of the "grand scheme of it all" as it looks from outside America, where most of the world's population lives? I'll wager that if you say the word "neighborhood" to an average non-American, they don't think of an American neighborhood first. -GTBacchus^(talk) 22:10, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose the move to Neighborhood. Three reasons: Policy, commonsense, and my personal ethnic prejudices. Andrewa 04:23, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose the move to Neighborhood. There is no excuse for bad spelling, once we start going down this road we will eventually have to rename it "the hood", but anyway another possible reason is that it might bring down property prices in my own neighbourhood if people thought the Americans were moving in. Excalibur 01:27, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose. It's not doing any harm spelt this way. Saying "neighborhood has come to become a more American concept", Rubbish!! – Axman (☏) 08:21, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.