Thread:Horsti12/@comment-30625039-20161213124816/@comment-30625039-20161213212338

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Bodoc Calado wrote: While I strongly support a consistent (names and text) use of either American or British English, I'd like to make you aware that it should not be an easy decision to be made. British English is the original language, yes, but a significant pro-American-English argument is that most people consulting this wiki play RCT in American English because probably the most sales of the game today are the Deluxe/Triple Thrill Editions distributed by Steam and GOG. It would be more conveniant and less confusing for the majority of our visitors here to easily find the desired page by the (American) term.

I'll happily believe a sizeable part of the audience of this wiki uses American English, but I very much doubt it's majority. Also, I believe that TTP supports multiple languages, including British English (or at least the disk version did). There are also many people who didn't play in English at all (non-English translations almost always used the original scenario names). In addition, the American version of RCT1 localises some terms that the American version of RCT2 left untouched (Gravitron, Whoa Belly, Scrambled Eggs spring to mind).

Currently there are redirects from the American names to the original ones, and every article mentions both names if they differ. I think that should be more than sufficient to cater for users that only know the American names.