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 :I'm really anti it, personally. The ""-ize/ization"" endings and especially the dreaded Oxford comma just give US wiki contributors licence (no 's') to adhere to an old definition of British English, one that's closer to contemporary American usage than British. (I got that from Bill Bryson.) The Beatles were an English band – to many readers, they're the epitome of (Northern) Englishness – and wikipedia articles should reflect as British/English an editorial style as possible. As a Brit, I'm thinking your earlier ""organisation"", ""criticising"", ""realise"" etc looked way better, Evan 2008. On the subject of style, should all chart positions not be in numerals (eg ""peaked at number seventeen"" for Love Me Do), especially as numerals are used for the likes of ""Lennon felt that Harrison, then 14, was too young to join the band"".   "