Forum:Color or Colour? Why do we have to be American?

This is my opinion, so before you go up in arms at me, please just listen. Thank you.

It has come to my attention that everything on this wiki absolutely has to be American spelling, American refs, American covers. That's fine, I understand that most of the users here are American. But what about us British users? There may be few of us, but there are at least four (including me) that are active that I know of. And I have recently found it starting to annoy and even slightly offend me that I am being asked to spell 'colour' 'color' and 'Greypaw' 'Graypaw', and that all the refs I find in the OS are not legit as they come from the English version of the books.

So, to get to the point, why can we not have it so that English or American spelling is allowed? Or at least have it so that if an American user really doesn't like the way we spell, change it themsleves rather than saying 'You shouldn't spell things wrong!'.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, 10:39, August 8, 2012 (UTC)