Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-5558012-20151022151711/@comment-24473195-20151022155547

Well, I've never really checked if people use UK vs US vs IN vs AUS. Although someone once asked me if we approve of US or UK English. My response was that there isn't any particular rule, but not to fret over the  spelling and wage edit wars over it as long as it is consistent throughout the article.

Actually at the time I didn't even know those guidelines existed, and only saw them later on. I think that blocking someone over spelling is a bit extreme. Would an individual as a student have liked it if a teacher punished them over simple spelling rules?

Misspelling is not the end of the world, and a word processor can quickly clean up all "inconsistencies" within a few seconds.

Anyway, if I recall correctly the Wikimedia foundation had a prototype tool to detect grammar and spelling mistakes, but it hasn't been deployed or left alpha status.