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Labour Alignment

Official Israeli government sources from the 1980s on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website spells it in the British way (e.g. here). If you can provide some pre-1992 documents from the country that spells it without the "u" then we can have a proper debate! Number 5 7 08:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

British/American Spellings

Wiki, perhaps unfortunately in a way, uses both. The context is the thing - so that "American subjects" get American spellings and "Non-American subjects" get British spellings. Of course it isn't that simple, and we have the odd clash of opinion, but in most cases the odd spelling that may look a little strange causes little if any confusion. We are literate people here, and are aware that American and British spellings do differ in some cases. In any case, mindless insistence on "alternate spellings" being noted every time an American spelling differs from the British, not to mention disputing every word where the spelling (alas) differs between the two conventions, would leave no time for more constructive editing. In any case, having been informed that there is consensus between editors that one spelling be used in a specific context, to insist that another take its place should be brought up in discussion - not an endless series of identical edits that you know very well are going to be reverted. Apologies, by the way, for labeling your last "repeat revert" as "vandalism" - I realise it is good faith, just wrong. (IMHO) Soundofmusicals 21:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 ==Labour Alignment==
 Official Israeli government sources from the 1980s on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website spells it in the British way (e.g. [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign%20Relations/Israels%20Foreign%20Relations%20since%201947/1977-1979/201%20Reply%20by%20Prime%20Minister%20Begin%20in%20the%20Knesset%20a here]). If you can provide some pre-1992 documents from the country that spells it without the "u" then we can have a proper debate! [[User:Number 57|<font color="orange"><span style="font-variant:small-caps">Number</span></font>]] [[User talk:Number 57|<font color="green">5</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Number 57|<font color="blue">7</font>]] 08:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
+==British/American Spellings==
+Wiki, perhaps unfortunately in a way, uses both. The context is the thing - so that "American subjects" get American spellings and "Non-American subjects" get British spellings. Of course it isn't that simple, and we have the odd clash of opinion, but in most cases the odd spelling that may look a little strange causes little if any confusion. We are literate people here, and are aware that American and British spellings do differ in some cases. In any case, mindless insistence on "alternate spellings" being noted every time an American spelling differs from the British, not to mention disputing every word where the spelling (alas) differs between the two conventions, would leave no time for more constructive editing. In any case, having been informed that there is consensus between editors that one spelling be used in a specific context, to insist that another take its place should be brought up in discussion - not an endless series of identical edits that you know very well are going to be reverted. Apologies, by the way, for labeling your last "repeat revert" as "vandalism" - I realise it is good faith, just wrong. (IMHO) [[User:Soundofmusicals|Soundofmusicals]] 21:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)