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This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (center, color, defense, realize, traveled) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Light was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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ENGVAR

Latest comment: 2 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I saw a recent change from British to American English, which would be consistent with the tag on this page, and out of a misguided curiosity decided to see when it was added.

Turns out it was changed from British to American in this unexplained edit by KING1116 in January 2021. At the time the article was this version, which is not altogether one variety or the other but at a quick scan it appears to me that British predominates. The British tag, on the other hand, was added in this edit by Tbhotch in November 2010, and the article was this version.

Generally it's a bad idea to necromance to figure out if ENGVAR changes were done correctly years in the past; if the current article is consistent it's probably best to leave it be. That said, at a glance it does appear that this one was probably not done correctly. I'll just leave this information here in case anyone wants to pursue the point. --Trovatore (talk) 07:10, 28 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

The article still using British English 16 years after I added the tag. King is a user with 40 edits and that hasn't edited since 2021. A simple revert to their change is enough. Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 07:20, 28 August 2026 (UTC)Reply