Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5956954-20160209104236/@comment-26347196-20160209113931

My opinion is that it should remain a mix. This is for the sake of everyone who wants to edit a content in Undertale wikia, and should not be restricted to manual of style.

In my experience, British-English is more likely to be used in terms of writing English, as it provides more sophitication and neatness. American-English, on the other hand, provides simplicity, and I can understand from the Wikia policy when it implies the manual of style should be Anerican-English; it provides simple language for users to understand.

However, these are only my assumptions, so that might not be accurate.

One unspoken rule that I may want to refer, though, is that if we were to quote anything from the game, whether flavor text or dialogues, we should never alter the quote just to fulfill the manual of style. This is to give the utmost accuracy for what we're trying to quote for the game (or when we are trying to quote anything at all). And if the developer somehow made two different people who would write two different letters containing both two forms of English, then we'd already have to resort into having a mix of English dialects into our wiki.

Another reason is to not restricted any users from editing because of manual of style. Every wikia is presented globally, and that means it includes Americans, British, and the huge amount of people, like me, who does not speak English as the first language. Especially on the latter category. While Americans and British have utilized their dialects, and may feel uncomfortable time trying to write in another dialect, new English learners have an even harder time trying to switch dialect. People may understand other dialects (i.e French from Paris and French from Languedoc may have a different dialect, but can be understandable and may be apparent in writing), but to properly use a different dialect is easier said than done. Having a mix in two dialects does not significantly restrict the ability to understand for some, but to have one consistent dialect may significantly restrict the ability to contribute to the wikia for some users.

Furthermore, you can't really fix all the dialects in each any every users' comments, should they use a different one, right? And, who knows, having the mix may help English learners a chance to be accommodated to dialects.