User blog comment:ForestFairy/How Internationalization Works at Wikia/@comment-28369736-20160804102423/@comment-26402117-20160804214353

You posted that comment on an American server, in an American website that is run by American staff and majority American users. Heck, I'm British too. I believe that British English is the precursor and is preferable in my opinion as it prioritises etymology over pronunciation. But I use American English when editing in a wiki where I'm not lone-wolfing the expansion - simply because more users use it and your edits do not clash with other users.

"Consistency" in this case is an attempt to suppress cultural interpretation and adaptation of languages. Its wrong and shouldn't happen.