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Go with Canadian spelling?

Epipelagic, "This idea of general barcoding originated in 2003 from researchers at the University of Guelph."

Which is in Canada, which uses British spelling mostly except for using -ize endings like Americans, would be easier to do my edit... Why was British spelling chosen/used (but not consistently)? [I've now changed the template.] comp.arch (talk) 15:43, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well I'm a New Zealander, more familar with British English. So I default articles I write to British English, unless there is reason not to. You might perhaps use Canadian English if you wrote an article about the Canadian researchers who came up with the idea of metabarcoding. But this article is about metabarcoding itself – a science topic with no particular ties to any specific country. So it should default to one of the main variants – British or American. Note MOS:VAR says, "it is generally considered inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change". — Epipelagic (talk) 17:08, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]