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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:
| This template is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
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:
| This template is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
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:
| This template is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
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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.
See also
{{Langx|en}}