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There is no doubt that Microsoft is a predominantly American subject. It was founded in New Mexico, incorporated in Delaware, and then moved to and still maintains its headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
Under MOS:TIES, "An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should use the (formal, not colloquial) English of that nation." In formal written English, many style guides (including Garner's Modern English Usage and the Bluebook), newspapers (including all five newspapers of record), and many professional publishers still prefer the traditional "U.S." over "US". Coolcaesar (talk) 05:15, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
US is a commonly used abbreviation for United States, although U.S. – with periods and without a space – remains common in North American publications, including in news journalism. Multiple American style guides, including The Chicago Manual of Style (since 2010), now deprecate "U.S." and recommend "US".
For commonality reasons, use US by default when abbreviating, but retainU.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established, unless there is a good reason to change it. Because use of periods for abbreviations and acronyms should be consistent within any given article, use US in an article with other country abbreviations, and especially avoid constructions like the U.S. and the UK.
This clearly tells us clearly that "US" is a permissible style in American English (even in an encyclopedic register) and that, per MOS:ENGVAR, we should generally prefer styles like "US" which are common to all varieties of English. (Were "US" not appropriate in American English in an encyclopedic register, MOS:COMMONALITY, which that quotation refers to, would not apply.) Do you read it otherwise, Coolcaesar?
Of course, MOS:US does allow "U.S." to be retained in American English articles where "there is [not] a good reason to change it". In the immediately following sentence, it gives an example of such a good reason: harmonizing country initialisms such as "US" and "UK", as "U.K." is never permitted on Wikipedia outside of a quotation and we cannot have two different country abbreviation styles in the same article. In this case, the article also uses "UK", so the only way to bring the article into compliance with the MOS is harmonize the country abbreviation styles. Graham (talk) 05:40, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just noticed this. I strongly disagree. It sounds like you are interpreting MOS in such a manner in order to find excuses to convert articles on American topics entirely to British English, which is terribly inappropriate. All you will succeed in doing is alienating editors accustomed to writing in American English.
Keep in mind that English Wikipedia is already hemorrhaging editors like crazy. I keep running into articles that have been obviously vandalized in their lead sentences, but no one is bothering to fix them for as long as three, four, or five years because the regular editor base is already too small (probably down to less than 20,000). I've also noticed that over the last two years, Google has begun to deprioritize Wikipedia articles in its search results because too many articles have been overrun with misinformation or vandalism and the existing editor base has been unable to contain the damage.
The last thing we need to do is alienate the users of the single largest English dialect by number of native speakers. The less offensive and more appropriate approach is to provide country names in this article in full as much as possible, rather than convert the entire article over to British English. I'm planning to make those revisions when I have the time, then I will switch this mess back over to American English. --Coolcaesar (talk) 16:49, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]