Template:Use British English Oxford spelling/sandbox

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This template is used to indicate for spell-checking script purposes that an article uses Oxford spelling, including (in chemistry-related articles) IUPAC spelling. Principally this means the use of -ize instead of -ise endings, but otherwise traditional British spelling and vocabulary.

Usage

{{Use Oxford spelling|date=August 2025}}

This maintenance template adds articles to Category:Use Oxford spelling to denote articles which have Oxford spelling.

This tag was used by the script User:Ohconfucius/EngvarB.

See also

• {{Use American English}}
• {{Use Antiguan and Barbudan English}}
• {{Use Australian English}}
• {{Use British English}}
  • {{Use Oxford spelling}}
• {{Use Canadian English}}
• {{Use Ghanaian English}}
• {{Use Hiberno-English}}
• {{Use Hong Kong English}}
• {{Use Indian English}}
• {{Use Jamaican English}}
• {{Use Kenyan English}}
• {{Use Liberian English}}
• {{Use Malaysian English}}
• {{Use New Zealand English}}
• {{Use Nigerian English}}
• {{Use Pakistani English}}
• {{Use Philippine English}}
• {{Use Singapore English}}
• {{Use South African English}}
• {{Use Sri Lankan English}}
• {{Use Trinidad and Tobago English}}
• {{Use Ugandan English}}

Template Data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Use British English Oxford spelling in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Use British English Oxford spelling

Placed near the top of an article, informs editors to use Oxford English spelling in the article.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template has custom formatting.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	date	Month and year the article was verified as using Oxford spelling conventions Example March 2016 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Date	suggested

Tracking categories

• Category:Pages using Oxford spelling template with unknown parameters (2)

  This tracks pages which have unknown parameters in the template.

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