Talk:Subscriber trunk dialling

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This is spelt wrong. It should be "Dialing" and not "Dialling". I just checked on Google, and there's 33,000,000 entries for the word with one L, and 5,000,000 for the one with two Ls. Also, throughout the text, the word is spelt wrong. Zsingaya 13:08, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

If I'm not mistaken, dialling vs. dialing is a regionalism, thus then Wikipedia policy takes over which states that regionalisms originally used must be maintained. Dysprosia 13:23, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I... I'm not even sure I understand what you said... surely the word that is more commonly used should be used on Wikipedia, right? How can you tell which one of these so-called "regionalisms" is the original one? Regards, a very confused Zsingaya 12:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

The article was originally created with a title using "dialling", and that version used "dialling" -- see the article history. There is a redirect set up to catch alternate spellings. We do not use American English's spelling conventions uniformly on Wikipedia, we use whatever convention was used originally, and we especially do not use American English on an article that deals with a subject tied with the UK and Australia. This is all described in the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Dysprosia 13:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I'll bow to your evident greater knowledge on this issue... sorry for being so persistent on this tiny insignificant matter !!! Zsingaya 11:11, 25 July 2006 (UTC)