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This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 January 2021 and 30 April 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Vibrants.Sami.

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so is it self defense if you got push and you go ahead and push someone back?

I reverted the spelling back to "defense" because that is the title of the article. Most articles seem to use "defense." Asdfqwe123 21:04, 22 February 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Its British English spelling vs US spelling. In British English a lot of nouns have "-ce", because that is used to differentiate verbs and nouns where both would otherwise have the same spelling, eg "practise" and "license" are verbs, "practice" and "licence" are nouns. I find "defense" rather horrid to read alas. Francis Davey 19:49, 10 July 2006 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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I will be working on this page over the next few weeks making some needed edits. I have noticed this page has not had much conversation in the last 15 years. I will mainly begin by adding or correcting citations. I will then add information to the Common Law Defenses section after conducting some independent research. Vibrants.Sami (talk) 21:20, 28 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]