User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Spelling debates/@comment-24894325-20151219214614/@comment-24894325-20151220224701

Now I see what you meant earlier: you were bot-proofing. Then I completely agree: this one seems completely bot-proof. (To your list above I might add that the Eleventh Doctor's various pieces of clothing is described as checkered several times on the page.

The options seem to be as follows: 1) Follow the in-universe sources. 2) Use chequers and chequered everywhere outside the titles. 3) Use chequers and chequered by default, unless there is an in-universe source with the alternative spelling. (please add others if I'm missing some)

From my point of view, 1) is problematic: firstly, it means that people without scripts for audios are prohibited from making edits. And I don't think scripts are available to the public for all the audios; secondly, another problematic situation is when there is an object with a distinctive chequered pattern (clothes, etc.) but it is never named in the story explicitly.

Both 2) and 3) are workable I believe. My preference is for 2). As precedent, I would cite the absence of periods after Dr despite the use of "Dr. Who" in the credits (see Tardis:Honourifics). From my point of view, chequers are an object from the real world that is not reimagined in DWU in any substantial way. Hence, there is no reason to afford it a special courtesy of adaptive spelling.