User talk:William Pembroke/Archive 1

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[edit] US/UK Spelling

Hi, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. The spelling errors that you corrected were not spelling errors, but they were UK spelling. Please do not change into US spellings in a UK-centric article. I am from the United States but realize that the spellings must conform with the locality of the article.--Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 16:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Apostrophe Edit

Your edits on the List of maps in Battlefield 2142, adding the apostrophes, its a pretty interesting one :) The 'EU' contraction of European Union, which is pretty vague, it could be a factions name or referencing the region in general. Now, consider that the use of apostrophes in place names is entirely up to the governing body itself, and does not follow any standardised english formalities but what they set, one would then have to assume that since most of the text in that article was taken from the EA website that EUs is entirely plausable, and in itself correct. BUT, at the same time if the EU contraction is to be taken as a noun, then EU's is of course correct. I agree with your edits to the article, but considering that the text was taken from the original authors, and the absence of an apostrphe is often acceptable if there is no ambiguation in its meaning (eg: Dont, Havent, etc), either or would have been fine :) -Trjn 03:56, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I did this because mainly most people who post about games are rather lazy and use shortcuts, I normally don't see the apostrophe, rather I usually find even admins of top community websites leave apostrophe's out like you said, in everyday words and actually never and one, I believe it is just their lazy judgment. I have "pet-peeves" on incorrect English (American that is), since I believe whatever language you speak, you should do it as proper as you can (which I don't believe many do.)

Additionally I might not that on a lot of sources of different factions of different storys normally included the apostrophe after the name, such as GDI's or NOD's in the Command and Conquer series. I additionally on my works include the standerdized English, if this was a purpose intent of the creators of the game, then I can see it being changed back, but like you said, words like: dont, isn't, etc. are usually not used with the apostrophe.

Thanks for the infromation --William Pembroke 20:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User templates

Where can I find user templates (in other words, templates such as non-smoker, uses Netscape etc.)? RSVP to my user talk page please Ted Ted 18:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)