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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=October 2026}}

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

• Wikipedia:Database reports/Multiple "Use xxx English" templates, a report showing articles using two or more of the templates listed below.

• {{Use American English}}
• {{Use Australian English}}
• {{Use British English}}
  • {{Use Oxford spelling}}
• {{Use Canadian English}}
• {{Use Hiberno-English}}
• {{Use Hong Kong English}}
• {{Use Indian English}}
• {{Use New Zealand English}}
• {{Use Nigerian English}}
• {{Use Pakistani English}}
• {{Use Philippine English}}
• {{Use South African 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 Oxford spelling in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Use Oxford spelling

<templatedata>

{ "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "type": "date", "example": "March 2016", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "suggested": true, "description": "Month and year the article was verified as using Oxford spelling conventions" } }, "format": "{{_|_ = _}}\n", "description": "Placed near the top of an article, informs editors to use Oxford English spelling in the article." } </templatedata>

Tracking categories

• Category:Pages using Oxford spelling template with unknown parameters (0)

  This tracks pages which have unknown parameters in the template.