English English vs American English vs   In an earlier edit changing petrol to gas I wrote in the edit comment that I was changing the wording to American English gas because thats the standard for this Wikipedia Another user pointed out that my assertion of an American English standard for this Wikipedia was incorrect according to the Wikipedia Manual of Style That user is correct I was unaware of the Manual of Styles position on this so I read into it According to the MoS there is no standard form of English for the English language Wikipedia Instead the language that one uses in a given article depends on  the form of English most closely associated with the topic and  the form of English used by the first major contributor to the article The article should in any case adhere to one standard form of English for example American English British English Canadian English Indian English or Australian English  Id like to talk about this for a bit because I think we may have an interesting boundary case in this article that helps further define the MoS policy on how to select the correct English variant for an article  English language variants and Unimogs Item  above says that the version of English used in an article should be the one most closely aligned with the subject The Unimog is a German truck and so one would have a hard time saying that there is a particular form of English closely aligned with the topic at least when its spoken of in Germany The Unimog has an especially weak association with England as the British military and farm trades did not as far as I know make much use of the Unimog instead heavily prefering the British designed and built Land Rovers The Unimog was used in many other nations however including Switzerland by the Swiss military and some nations in Africa and Asia I am not aware of the modern history of the Unimog outside of Europe but I know that in the s and s when it was at its peak in terms of exposts it was purchased in these regions for military applications In Asia and Africa I am unaware of any particularly strong association between the Unimog and a given variant of English  There was one market the Unimog was sold in where there was a strong association with a particular variant of English and that was the United States DaimlerBenz through its dealers and representatives has sold and services Unimogs in the United States for I believe over twenty years   To add to American English argument in recent years DaimlerBenz merged with Chrysler Chrysler is a US company  Further the US company Applied Minds as widely publicized a variant of the Unimog called the Maximog This Unimog has received press coverage a Google search turns up articles on this project in the US newsmedia  I believe that the Unimog sold more units and has a higher profile in the United States than in any other nation where English is the official language though perhaps Canada could make a claim I would like to hear whether others feel that the Unimog has a particularly strong association with Britain Canada India Australia or another country whose version of English is widely recognized  English language provenance of the article Item  above refers to the version of English used by the first major contribution to the article excluding stubs  I wrote the first version of this article in Sept  and I think I could argue that this was a nonstub creation in American English The article remained unexpanded until  when other editors added content to it These edits largely retained the American spelling but wisely introduced metric measurements which I believe are most strongly associated with Unimogs  I would be surprised if a Germanengineered vehicle was built in terms of feet and pounds  Id like to open this up to comments  what do others think