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--ЗAНИA talk 22:01, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

British vs. American spelling
Please check the generally-used spelling in a book before changing sections of it to your preferred variant. In the case of European History I believe the original authors were from the US and may have been writing primarily for US students of European history. (see Which spelling should I use?) I am British myself BTW. Thanks, Recent Runes (discuss • contribs) 23:53, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I have all rights to learn history of my country Europe in a European language. I don't touch your America! JLincoln (discuss • contribs)
 * There is no rule that says books about Britain (or Europe) need to be written in British English or books about America need to be written in American English. The choice of American or British English is a matter for the main authors of a book. As European History has been a featured book for over two years, the use of American English in this book can be taken as generally accepted by the Wikibooks community and I think that respect for their choice of language would show the appreciation due to their significant contribution to the project. Recent Runes (discuss • contribs) 17:33, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Then I'll be ignoring such a history. I want to learn the European history, and I want to have a possibility to read that in the English used by Europeans. JLincoln (discuss • contribs) 18:55, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * In general, and Wikibooks is quite "policy light" so this is a custom and practice not a policy, unless a book has its own manual of style then the choice of UK or US English is down to the individual editor. Where I make changes it is only to make a specific page consistent, choosing the dominant language to standardise on. That's because I think mixing things up in a single page is inappropriate. We are all free to change the language of a book as we wish, there's no rule against it, however as Recent Runes writes it is polite to consider the intentions of the majority authors and sensible to think about the overall usage of style, format and language in a book. Remember many books have print versions so if you change one chapter so it is different to all the others it won't necessarily be great when it is printed. And of course just as you are free to change it, others are free to change it back so you may find changes that others think are inappropriate reversed later. QU TalkQu 19:21, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I was going to tread through the whole book, ab ovo; and when I read something, I can't help noticing typos, ambiguities, mistakes, and so on (even when I'm a beginner in the subject, I can see inconsistencies, for example) . JLincoln (discuss • contribs) 05:46, 4 September 2011 (UTC)