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A fact from Operation Septentrion appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 March 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The article does not have strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation. Therefore MOS:RETAIN requires that the article consistently use the variety of English of the first non-stub revision, which happens to be Canadian English. Mathew5000 (talk) 17:26, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it is a tie, but not a "strong tie" because the operation was primarily French. Wikipedia policy MOS:TIES applies when the topic of the article has "strong ties" to a particular English-speaking nation. Even though Operation Septentrion has stronger ties to the US than to any other English-speaking nation, that doesn't necessarily constitute strong ties. Mathew5000 (talk) 19:50, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding this edit, you are misunderstanding WP:ITALIC. It provides: “Wikipedia prefers italics for phrases in other languages and for isolated foreign words”. It certainly does not say to italicize article titles, or blocks of quoted text, that happen to be in a foreign language. Mathew5000 (talk) 17:34, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
