Template:American English

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This template may be included on talk pages or editnotices to alert other editors that the associated article is written in American English. Usually, the article either has evolved using predominantly this variety or has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation that uses this variety.

Talk page usage

To use this template on an article's talk page, place {{American English}} near the top of the talk page. This produces the following:

Except that, for this and the smaller version, rather than "This template", on an article talk page, it would say, "This article"; on a draft talk page it would say "This page".

A smaller version is also available, by typing {{American English|small=yes}}. This looks like this:

Placing this template will also add the page to Category:Wikipedia articles that use American English. Additional options of |Oxford= for Oxford spelling, and |IUPAC= for IUPAC spelling, exist.

Editnotice usage

To use this template on an article's editnotice, {{American English|form=editnotice}} is placed (without |form=editnotice if the template name ends with "editnotice") on the editnotice template. This produces the following:

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All users can create editnotices for their user and talk pages but only administrators and template editors can create or edit editnotices in other namespaces. Thus, to request this template be added to an article or other page in a restricted namespace, you can make your request at its talk page, using the template {{Edit template-protected}}.

An example talk page request you might emulate appears below:

{{Edit_template-protected}}
Please create an [[Wikipedia:Editnotice|edit notice]] for the article, placing in it the template <nowiki>{{American English|form=editnotice}}</nowiki> Thank you--~~~~

Variants

This template should have a "Use X English" counterpart from Category:Use English templates that can be placed on the article itself to indicate the English variant used and assist with scripts and bots that normalize spelling. See the below table.

English variant templates

Use on articles	Use on talk pages	Notes
{{Use American English}}	{{American English}}
(no equivalent)	{{Antarctic English}}
{{Use Antiguan and Barbudan English}}	{{Antiguan and Barbudan English}}
{{Use Australian English}}	{{Australian English}}
{{Use Bangladeshi English}}	{{Bangladeshi English}}
{{Use British English}}	{{British English}}
{{Use Oxford spelling}}	{{Oxford spelling}}	(talk page variant redirects to {{British English Oxford spelling}})
{{Use British English with -ise spellings}}	(no equivalent)	(created during this discussion)
{{Use Canadian English}}	{{Canadian English}}
{{Use Ghanaian English}}	{{Ghanaian English}}
{{Use Hiberno-English}}	{{Hiberno-English}}
{{Use Hong Kong English}}	{{Hong Kong English}}
{{Use Indian English}}	{{Indian English}}
(no equivalent)	{{IUPAC spelling}}	See MOS:CHEM § Nomenclature, which supplements WP:ENGVAR.
(no equivalent)	{{IUPAC spelling US}}
{{Use Jamaican English}}	{{Jamaican English}}
{{Use Kenyan English}}	{{Kenyan English}}
{{Use Liberian English}}	{{Liberian English}}
{{Use New Zealand English}}	{{New Zealand English}}
{{Use Nigerian English}}	{{Nigerian English}}
{{Use Pakistani English}}	{{Pakistani English}}
{{Use Philippine English}}	{{Philippine English}}
{{Use Scottish English}}	{{Scottish English}}	{{Use Scottish English}} redirects to {{Use British English}}
(no equivalent)	{{Sierra Leonean English}}
{{Use Singapore English}}	{{Singaporean English}}	(Inconsistent style; {{Singapore English}} redirects)
{{Use South African English}}	{{South African English}}
{{Use Sri Lankan English}}	{{Sri Lankan English}}
{{Use Trinidad and Tobago English}}	{{Trinidadian English}}	(Inconsistent style due to page move (log))
{{Use Ugandan English}}	{{Ugandan English}}
{{EngvarB}}		Deprecated; for non-specific but not North American spelling

See also

• {{Langx|en}}

• {{English variant notice}}

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