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*'''Support option B'''. Fewer changes to make and per [[:Category:Organisations based in Haiti]]. Not an English-speaking country, so we should go with the commonest usage thus far. Commonwealth countries (including the English-speaking Caribbean) mostly favour the 's' spelling; US-influenced countries favour the 'z' spelling. Contrary to some claims, the 's' spelling has long been the norm in Britain and other countries; even Oxford University now prefers it, despite the OED's continued insistence on the 'z' version. The 'z' form is acceptable, of course, but they are certainly not on an equal footing. Claims that the 'z' form is more widely accepted are Americanocentric. -- [[User:Necrothesp|Necrothesp]] ([[User talk:Necrothesp|talk]]) 14:21, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
:* Why depart from the spelling of {{cl|Organizations}} to use 'organisation', which is definitely not acceptable in the US and Canada? The Haitian Times has [https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahaitiantimes.com+%22organization%22 1160 hits] for 'organization' and [https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahaitiantimes.com+%22organisation%22 19] for 'organisation', a more than equal footing, possibly due to the US occupation of [[Haiti]] from 1915-1934, or the more recent intervention from 1994-1995. (I expect Shakespeare would be surprised to be considered 'Americanocentric'.) [[User:Oculi|Oculi]] ([[User talk:Oculi|talk]]) 16:02, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
::*I don't know if you're aware, but Shakespeare died four hundred years ago! English has changed a lot since his day. ''Modern'' Commonwealth English overwhelmingly uses the 's' form. Your argument based on {{cl|Organizations}} seems to be saying we should use the 'z' spelling in all such categories, which is definitely not in the spirit of Wikipedia's non-insistence on any one variety of English. -- [[User:Necrothesp|Necrothesp]] ([[User talk:Necrothesp|talk]]) 12:25, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
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