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Regarding this. Or perhaps understanding what you are doing better rather than just gnoming without thought. There was ONE instance of non-British style and you converted the whole article to that rather than checking what it should be. That's just creating pointless extra work to correct your error. DeCausa (talk) 23:39, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
As far as I know, there's no Wikipedia guideline that explicitly prescribes the use of "US" rather than "U.S." in articles which use British English spelling.
Just because "US" might be more common in British English doesn't mean it's used exclusively or even prescribed to use it. In general and in the vast majority of Wikipedia articles, regardless of British or American spelling, it's written as "U.S." (except perhaps in some short descriptions and edit summaries to save space). Maxeto0910 (talk) 23:49, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
As stated in MOS:US: For commonality reasons, use US by default when abbreviating, but retain U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established, unless there is a good reason to change it." I don't know how the MOS could be any clearer. In ignorance of that you illogically changed the three instances of US to match the one instance of U.S. So ignorance of the MoS and illogical editing is one thing but what gets my goat is you reverted me with the snarky and uncalled for then be consistent with the writing style instead of just restoring the inconsistent version. If you are going to be snarky you'd better make sure you are right. You weren't. DeCausa (talk) 17:31, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Stop gaslighting. The guideline says to use US not U.S. Read it. And you did revert me - I linked to your revert of me in my first post in this thread. DeCausa (talk) 18:40, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Not true. The edit of me which you linked wasn't a revert, but a correction in which I used a consistent writing style of "US" instead of "U.S.", based on your mention of the guideline, because you simply reverted my edit to the inconsistent previous version instead of just using a consistent writing style throughout the article. Show me the alleged edit where I supposedly reverted you. You won't find it because it doesn't exist. Maxeto0910 (talk) 19:19, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Maybe I was wrong - maybe you really do have a WP:CIR issue. I'll spell it out for you. This is your edit in breach of MOS:US, then this is where I reverted you, then your next edit is this. In that last edit you undid my revert of you. You may not be aware, but that is called a "revert" in Wikipedia. That's because you reverted my edit. So we use the word "revert" to describe it. It might help you to read Wikipedia:Reverting which explains further what a revert is. On the other hand it may not as everything in this thread indicates your comprehension of written English is a problem. DeCausa (talk) 19:45, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Still wrong. I have not restored a previous version of the article at all. It was a completely new, unprecedented edit in which I enforced a consistent writing style. Not a revert at all, since I have NOT reverted your edit. I have used one consistent writing style, and that also included changing the inconsistent instances of the previous version which you restored. It was at most a partial revert by coincidence. It's also funny to accuse me of gaslighting (without any explanation at all) when you accuse me of simply being incompetent and not understanding English well enough. Maxeto0910 (talk) 19:53, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
And I see you've been making the same mistake in other articles as
And I see you've been making the same mistake in other articles as here. That was an American English article but you changed 8 instances of US to match the 2 of U.S. Are you going to correct your error in those articles? DeCausa (talk) 17:39, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
No, I am not going to change the spelling of the article (when you write articles in plural, then give at least 2 examples) because there is no error. As you already figured out, the article uses American English, where it's commonly written as "U.S.". And since the article already used instances of "U.S." before my edit, I just made it consistent. Maxeto0910 (talk) 18:20, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
This is ridiculous. The MOS says to use US whether the article is in British or American English. U.S. wasn't established - you changed 8 instances of US to match 2 instances of U.S. If you are incapable of reading the MoS you shouldn't be gnoming and I'll need to go to ANI to have your WP:CIR issue examined. However, I assume all that's happening here is an ego that can't coped with being called out. (There may be other examples of your breach of MOS but China jumped out at me because it's on my watchlist and you've just done a bunch of edits on it. I'm not gong to trawl through your contributions to see check your failure to understand the MOS - I've seen enough to know that is the case. DeCausa (talk) 18:40, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
"The MOS says to use US whether the article is in British or American English."
Except it doesn't in all cases: "[...] retain U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established [...]"
"U.S. wasn't established"
The article already used "U.S." before I did any edit related to the writing style of it, so there really wasn't any spelling style that prevailed until then.
"[...] you changed 8 instances of US to match 2 instances of U.S."
Yes, and I fail to see why that should be a problem. Show me the part of the guideline which claims that whether a writing style can be considered "established" or not depends on the number of times used. I'd argue that when the article uses two different writing forms over a long period of time, it hasn't developed an "established" writing form at all.
Apart from that: I've simply made the spelling consistent, which, viewed in isolation, is an objective improvement over the inconsistent writing style it used to be, regardless of which writing style one prefers.
Since you are apparently the only one here who is bothered by the use of "U.S." instead of "US", you are welcome to change it accordingly. No one will hinder you, especially not me, because I couldn't care less about whether it's "U.S." or "US". All I care about is that it's consistent. However, your irrational complains about the fact that I simply made the spelling of the article consistent does not result in anything useful for Wikipedia at all. Maxeto0910 (talk) 19:39, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Stop your gaslighting. I'm going to cut this short. If this is just your ego stopping you admitting you got this wrong...then fine (sort of). However, if you genuinely think what you di waa right and I see you doing it. agin I'm going to go to ANI to get you TBAN'd from MOS editing. DeCausa (talk) 19:55, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
