Talk:Sahle-Work Zewde

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I apologise for starting this discussion page with a triviality.

However, my experience of the English Wikipedia is that a great deal of editor time can be wasted on "correcting" spelling "mistakes" that are actually not mistakes but differences between the various flavours of English.

That is one reason that we have the

The first non-trivial version of this article used the principle of

Consequently, spellings should not be "corrected" from non-US spelling to US spelling in this article and I have placed a reminder template at the top of this discussion page.--BushelCandle (talk) 22:58, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's a well-established principle that editors should not change from one variety of English to another without good reason or talk page consensus. I don't believe that the presence of a date in the format "11 March 2011" establishes British English for the purposes of

WP:BRD. Therefore I've again reverted to the previous status quo. Please don't make this edit for a third time without first establishing consensus to do so, thanks. --IamNotU (talk) 09:04, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply

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There is a quote from Reuters [1], saying "Sahle-Work becomes the fourth president since the ruling EPRDF coalition came to power". This has been widely distributed and repeated by numerous other sources. However, it is unclear and could be misleading. The

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 08:51, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]