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requires an en dash instead of a hyphen. Shortcut MOS:SUSPENDEDMOS:SUSPENDED Use a suspended hyphen (also called a hanging hyphen) when two compound modifiers...

of the non-breaking hyphen character ‑, U+2011, coded by ‑ or ‑. Once displayed in a page, the non-breaking hyphen can be copied into words...

discourage newcomers from embarking upon their first edits. To arms, fellow hyphen Luddites! Smash (metaphorically-speaking) the manual of style as your forebears...

the hyphen (sometimes called the hyphen-minus), the minus sign, the en dash, and the em dash. The hyphen (- or -, MOS:HYPHEN; known as the hyphen-minus...

The hyphen-minus (keyboard hyphen), en dash, em dash, and mathematical minus/negative symbols are different . Pressing the - on your keyboard, usually...

were submitted in the workshop. A request for arbitration concerning a hyphens and dashes dispute was filed last week. In lieu of opening a case at this...

more ... Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home). read more ... A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words...

{{Emdash}}) an en-dash (–; –; {{Endash}}) a minus (−; −; {{Minus}}) a hyphen (-) Looking at the source of this page, one key distinction can immediately...

personally. I think hyphens are readable and fairly visible, in fact there isn't a great difference between en dashes and hyphens. I can see hyphens perfectly fine...

(Yes/No): Yes Function details: When the target of the AnomieBOT-created ASCII-hyphen redirect no longer matches the en-dash-containing title (e.g. the en-dash-containing...

interpretation, bordering double standards. Per MOS:HYPHEN, hyphen indicates a conjunction and in all these examples hyphen is used as a conjunction - if you remove...

he started a "my way or the highway" section at WT:MOS#Ending the endash/hyphen warring, and in that section has continued to assert that the MOS is in...

June 2009 (UTC) "an all steel cage format PPV event"—probably just one hyphen required. Changed it from an em dash to an en dash.--WillC 11:12, 12 June...

issued to new books. Use hyphens if they are included, as they divide the number into meaningful parts. The placement of hyphens varies depending on the...

Should the phrase "all female" in "all female band" be hyphenated? Hyphen#Compound modifiers and Compound modifier#Hyphenation of elements suggest that...

see the essay WP:Hyphens and dashes. It is forward looking as currently Wikipedia extends the use of endashes to places that hyphens are normally used...

contain one (or two, in case Cesare O.) hidden soft hyphens. There is no indication, that any of these hyphens has been inserted on purpose, see for example...

format, the correct syntax for an ISSN is "an eight digit code, divided by a hyphen into two four-digit numbers" Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic...

author does not necessarily know that genuine hyphens may not be spaced, hence if there should be a hyphen, then just delete spaces. Another possibility...

doubt? I call it a minus sign. So do typographers. It is very similar to a hyphen, and often the same character is used. Notinasnaid 11:58, 6 July 2006 (UTC)...

the process removing the comma.--SRX 23:28, 19 September 2008 (UTC) Add a hyphen between "non-physical". Done.--SRX 23:28, 19 September 2008 (UTC) Main event...

No hyphen after -ly A hyphen is not used after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home, a wholly owned subsidiary). Read more about the exceptions ...

Am I one of a very small group of people who is annoyed by the lack of a hyphen in Wikipedia:Babel's en-4 output, between "near" and "native"? See an instance...

located at the shorter link. Once the abbreviation page has been created, the hyphen link should {{R from abbreviation}} to the other page. 0A 1A 2A 3A 4A 5A...

Assisted: Automatic Programming Language(s): PHP Function Summary: Replace hyphens with en-dashes in page number ranges Already has a bot flag (Y/N): yes...

October 2010 (UTC) Comment - it should be Category:Hyphen-Luddites, Category:Hyphen–Luddites or Category:Hyphen—Luddites (all done without any 'ugly code')....

Comment – Don't think the hyphen in "major-league cities" should be there. We usually say the term major league without the hyphen. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:15...

you use a hyphen or an ndash? In the titles of your articles, like Kitchener-Waterloo and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, you use hyphens, but I've...

for using a hyphen is that "second language" is a compound modifier of "acquisition", and that per MOS:HYPHEN #3 this should take a hyphen. The argument...

The distinction between a hyphen and a dash is clear cut, but a lot of people don't know how to type a dash so they put a hyphen instead. Personally I use...

older overseas Chinese communities. When using a Wade–Giles romanization, a hyphen should be used between the syllables of a two-character given name, with...

anyway to aid readers. Hyphens: Do not insert hyphens into people's names for strict romanizations. Also, any optional hyphen in Revised Romanization...

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space.) Seems to be an unlikely term for redirect with the oddly-placed hyphen. Should we delete it here or make it a redirect (in which case I will probably...

disability access without the hyphen. Someone searching for thiswould surely find it without the hyphen? (and it is a hyphen, not an en dash or whatnot)...

Hyphens can avoid ambiguity A hyphen can help to disambiguate (little-celebrated paintings is not a reference to little paintings, in which case avoid...

(UTC) I'm American and I would always use the hyphen. I'd say the hyphen works for edited texts and no hyphen works for informally written, unedited texts...

of which is this page, and another of which seems to be referring to our Hyphen article -- it's clearly not a term in common use. (If you still need an...

hyphen. (I actually recently removed such a hyphen.)  --Lambiam 17:39, 22 February 2020 (UTC) I see that Valereee has deleted the "then" and hyphen in...

{{cite web}} etc. Many page ranges are incorrectly given using a simple hyphen or (occasionally) an em-dash. Pages not matching this logic will be skipped...

neither of which are needed. Also, there's that misplaced word at the end. Hyphen needed for "NWA labelled" and "NWA branded" at various times. Remove comma...

this bot task is to format wikilinks that are to redirects either for the hyphen form of a title with an endash, or for the non-diacritic form of a title...

October 2010 (UTC) Comment - it should be Category:Hyphen-Luddites, Category:Hyphen–Luddites or Category:Hyphen—Luddites (all done without any 'ugly code')....

reflect changes. Hyphens and en dashes A discussion has been opened regarding the stoppage of debates regarding en dashes, hyphens, and any other small...

Dashes in article titles When naming an article, don't use a hyphen as a substitute for an en dash that properly belongs in the title, for example in Eye–hand...

have a hyphen. Other charts under Category:Number one singles like Category:Japanese number one singles also do not support the usage of the hyphen. I believe...

Hanging hyphens A hanging hyphen is used when two compound modifiers are separated (two- and three-digit numbers, a ten-car or -truck convoy, sloping right-...

May 2008 (UTC) Oppose 1) How can you not know the difference between a hyphen and an n-dash? (In the lead and lord knows where else). 2) The prose? Here...

for more info.--WillC 15:23, 10 April 2010 (UTC) Comments – Should be a hyphen in "ROH promoted", I believe. Done--WillC 06:38, 22 April 2010 (UTC) "A...

hyphens and diacritics add redirects from any likely alternative spellings. Airport names are not commonly spelled with a dash, and only use a hyphen...

MediaWiki uses numbers and hyphens "-" in the editnotice names. This causes problems since in template programming we can not convert back to a slashed...

save performance" - Hyphen? "won 60 games in an 80 game schedule" - Hyphen? "The error resulted in a too many men penalty" - Hyphens? 1980–1996: Transitions...

throughout that Nicki is Onika. Ref 1, double period, double hyphen. Remove one period, turn double hyphen into en-dash. Ref 9, avoid # for No. Ref 19, no accessdate...

results[1]. "Organo-argon chemistry" (with the hyphen) gives, er, 2[2]. So on the one hand this hyphen "is" significant" and I based my AfD on the actual...

in the form xx-stub (or xx-xx-stub, etc.), with the parts separated by hyphens, not spaces. Capital letters should be used where (and only where) they...

found/ have been found". "your first parlay" MS Word changed short hyphen to long hyphen Word for married woman's male sex partner outside of marriage?...

there can be disagreement about whether the title should include dashes or hyphens. An issue is that all inbound links of either version need to be connected...

Officially, the 1961 version of MR that we currently use recommends no hyphens in names, the use of assimilation in names, and the use of diacritics....

language(s): AWB Source code available: AWB Function overview: Replace hyphens with endashes within the "teams" and "formerteams" parameters in {{Infobox...

words where a hyphen is used to distinguish between homographs (e.g. re-creation vs. recreation). Also, some dictionaries prefer a hyphen in "re-release"...

2.59 (talk) 04:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC) See Hyphen#Compound modifiers. I would consider that the hyphen is required in this case, but today it is becoming...

24 February 2010 (UTC) Should the term provincially maintained have a hyphen or ndash between the words in the following sentence? Provincial Highway...

(e.g., Grey Currawong, Duke of Burgundy), except for words that follow a hyphen (e.g., Brown-headed Spider Monkey). In sentence case, no capital letters...

"anti-American", which these days are just as likely to be spelled without the hyphen ("non British", "anti American"). Some say it's just a question of style...

come to grips with is one that some editors are clearly obsessed with - hyphens, en-dashes and em-dashes. (I will probably be chastised and corrected for...

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018 July 16 Hyphen in object–verbal noun compound Hyphens for this sentence? Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2018...

--Redtigerxyz Talk 18:16, 30 January 2012 (UTC) "modern age poetry" — needs WP:HYPHEN: "modern-age poetry" Done. --Redtigerxyz Talk 18:16, 30 January 2012 (UTC)...

en-dash to separate these, not a hyphen. Page ranges in the refs need en-dash, not hyphen, per WP:DASH. Same goes for the hyphen in ref 1, should be an en-dash...

10 August 2019 (UTC) You should use an en dash (see MOS:ENDASH), not a hyphen as in your first example. No spaces around it. Deor (talk) 19:46, 10 August...

previously. MOS:HYPHEN gives some guidance for when hyphens may be used on Wikipedia, as does MOS:ENDASH. There's a suggestion (in section 3 of HYPHEN) that "ADA-accessible"...

Does English ever use hyphen to separate parts of a closed compound word? Are the following ever used? New York–Boston-road South-Virginia RSS-feed 5-1-win...

first "all-time" hyphen, because it's not used as an adjective. EnemyOfTheState|talk 12:20, 18 August 2011 (UTC) Comment: On the hyphen issue, "all-time"...

sole World Championship before his substance abuse related death in 2005." Hyphen before related? Another thing: the last Guerrero mentioned was Chavo. Maybe...

told someone at work to replace the hyphens in her ranges (1-17 5th-17h etc) with en-rules. She agrees the hyphens are wrong, but maintains that the symbol...

—Cliftonian (talk) 16:13, 15 August 2012 (UTC) "directly-administrated": no hyphen per WP:HYPHEN. That back-formation from administration is more common in BritEng...

09:01, 27 June 2017 (UTC) Words like "self-expression" include a hyphen; but not a hyphen surrounded by spaces, because that makes it read like a dash, as...

American Writers Workshop Audrey (magazine) Bamboo Ridge Basement Workshop Hyphen Magazine Kearny Street Workshop Kundiman (nonprofit organization) Mochi...

should be hyphenated: "I walked a five-kilometer-long trail." (See MOS:HYPHEN,sub-subsection 3, points 3 and 8.) —Wavelength (talk) 14:31, 29 November...

"failed to chart on". "2008-2010" in the infobox, needs an en-dash, not a hyphen per WP:DASH. " its 5th year" fifth. "Unlike, Drama Queen or" no need for...

adjective, then use an ordinary hyphen. See our article: Hyphen#Joining. Dbfirs 19:37, 16 May 2015 (UTC) Use a hyphen only when the expression is attributive...

might omit the hyphen, but few would say the use of the hyphen is clearly wrong), 3) and this also means that it doesn't matter if the hyphen is missing in...

(r40770, bug 12650) #expr: now allows a Unicode minus (−) as well as a hyphen (-) to indicate a negative number or subtraction. (r40762, bug 15349) Pages...

Does English ever use hyphen to separate parts of a closed compound noun, such as PDF-file, Arsenal–Tottenham-match, 5-1-win, Canada–United States-relations...

9 March 2006 (UTC) Agree that hyphen must go; it is not the common usage --DV8 2XL 20:51, 4 March 2006 (UTC) Hyphen is gone. :) Royboycrashfan 23:40...

the name that is the article title for the player. Where and when to use hyphens is a matter general English grammar, and the editor should be aware of...

consider a hyphen is to ensure they're not mispronounced, which is only a risk if the second part starts with a vowel. Otherwise, no hyphen is necessary...

survived. Clarityfiend 02:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC) WP:MoS (WP:HYPHEN) says that hyphens are used to "link related terms in compound adjectives and adverbs:"...

(A–K) List of foos – A–K Note: That is an en-dash, not a hyphen; a version of the name with a hyphen should exist as a redirect to the real page. Deprecated...

a hyphen unless what follows the hyphen is itself a proper name (as in post-Soviet) ..." Per MOS:HYPHEN: "Do not use a capital letter after a hyphen except...

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singles were, well, "promotional"? What is ASCAP? "Andrew Lloyd Webber" no hyphen. "Harvey Mason, Jr." no comma these days. "Kara Dioguardi" capital G. Ref...

keyboard hyphens and the Em dashes are the long (–) hyphens? Cla68 (talk) 03:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC) Nope: hyphen (-), ndash (–), mdash (—). Hyphen and ndash...

python Source code available: [1] Function overview: create redirects from hyphens to endashes Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): request...

already familiar with the subject. -- JLaTondre 20:06, 25 November 2006 (UTC) Hyphen is only used by the article created and author. I think the target name...

inclined to add a hyphen to "show jumping"; i.e, "show-jumping course". "while the youngest was 16 year old Luiza Almeida of Brazil" - Hyphens here too: "16-year-old...

SpinningSpark 11:59, 30 June 2014 (UTC) I need a non-breaking hyphen, and went to wp:nonbreaking hyphen for the code. First, the code given there was missing...

old "x" - this is an encyclopaedia. 18-49 needs an en-dash instead of a hyphen. What's the point in a timeslot column when you've already said when every...

are used in a phrase like "the all-time top goalscorer" then it needs a hyphen, but in something like "the top goalscorer of all time" then it doesn't...

avoid ambiguity. With a hyphen, it is clear that "fair-use restrictions" refers to restrictions on fair use. Without a hyphen, "fair use restrictions"...

the Python Wikipediabot Framework Function Summary: Rename pages with hyphens in numeric ranges to use en dashes instead per the MOS Edit period(s) (e...

2ε lets one use \- to indicate the permissible positions of end-of-line hyphens, thereby overriding whatever might be prescribed in the spelling "dictionary"...

hyphen, either. Corrected all cases I saw. Game_summary#Second_half Same issue with en-dashes where hyphens should be is found here. Fixed all hyphen...

Unspaced en dashes can be used, in place of a hyphen, in compounds whose elements themselves contain hyphens or spaces (the anti-conscription–pro-conscription...

One point I'd disagree with is the hyphen in narrow gauge. The article Narrow gauge railway does not use hyphens, and more importantly, the Oxford English...

issue needs to be sorted; it is non-trivial. The hyphen issue should be easily solved (I would use the hyphen). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:49, 13 February 2015...

located at the shorter link. Once the abbreviation page has been created, the hyphen link should {{R from abbreviation}} to the other page. Note that all entries...

and possibly even expand upon his role. Newcastle upon Tyne doesn't have hyphens. "Simeon of Durham [2]" avoid spaces before references. Before text like...

discussions (where appropriate): Bot Request and MOS Page that says: A hyphen is never followed or preceded by a space Edit period(s): Monthly? The consensus...

like this should use spaced endashes or unspaced emdashes, not hyphens. See WP:HYPHEN and WP:DASH for usage rules Why are prefixes bolded in the tables...

now-withdrawn AN/I request for intervention on the Mexican American War hyphen-dash battles. I don't think it can get much lamer than this. If Avanu agrees...

the article uses a mix of unspaced hyphens, endashes and unspaced emdashes (according to Tony1, incorrect hyphens in direct quotes should be changed to...

seen, most terms that one sees hyphenated elsewhere, on Wikipedia, the hyphen is omitted (EG African American), tho' I'm not real clear why. Niteowlneils...

seen a hyphen between "Puerto" and "Rican" anywhere in the English language. Not even the article uses them. Could you point out where a hyphen must be...

International Catalogue of Superheroes, breaking things down by country Hyphen, a company specialised in comic-book copyright management. Dupuis, publisher...

735)" No hyphen. But why for the rest? -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]] 17:48, 15 February 2009 (UTC) Those are Compound modifiers, read WP:HYPHEN. Here, regular...

don't overcapitalise it. "Vascular Spasm - Damaged blood vessels " that hyphen should be an en-dash per WP:DASH. "injured area.[5] [6]" don't put spaces...

though t was listed (originally without the hyphen) that it had no internal link or entry. I just fixed the hyphen mistake and added a very short entry on...

pressure", so no hyphen is necessary. Double adjectives only need to be hyphenated if the phrase would be confusing or ambiguous without the hyphen. Pais (talk)...

en dash, not a hyphen, since direction/movement is involved. There are similar hyphens further down. Isn't it a "border"? MOS: no hyphen after "-ly". Look...

(UTC) Likewise, there is a faulty hyphen in {{Infobox hurricane season}} that should be an WP:ENDASH; pls get hyphens and dashes sorted in all of the hurricane...

January 2021 (UTC) Comment Identical discussion occurring in parallel re -/– (hyphen vs endash) at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 11#List...

conventions) that distinguish between the uses of the dash, ndash, mdash, hyphen, etc. (And I assume that there are even more similar symbols out there,...

way, "North-South" etc. are written several times with a hyphen. Pick either en dash or hyphen and be consistent. Linfox's – Should be Linfox's. By the...

1915 and the Italian decision Remove 1915. Shouldn't the Postwar have a hyphen in the "Postwar activities" section? I usually see it written as a single...

are oysters linked? WP:DASH attention need on number ranges (ndash, not hyphen). Avoid sounding like a tourism brochure (... the closest street to the...

noticed that the titles of many film articles use an en dash rather than a hyphen (i.e. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1), and I'm wondering...

birth, your ability is something like that of a native speaker. xx (no hyphen or number) for native-born speakers who use a language every day and have...

titles that fail Wikipedia:DASH, which states When naming an article, a hyphen is not used as a substitute for an en dash that properly belongs in the...

Category:Miami–Dade County, Florida and all sub categories, since the hyphens should be dashes. Morriswa (Charlotte Allison) (talk) 15:34, 22 June 2018...

"This high-rises in Dayton, Ohio, by height. Note tha "high-rises" needs a hyphen, and should be wikilinked. The information about various name-changes is...

eight hyphens added two bytes. JIP | Talk 19:25, 8 May 2021 (UTC) Your edit summary "proper hyphen" was a little misleading. You changed hyphen to en...

that it is incorrect without the hyphen. 86.130.67.100 (talk) 01:55, 24 August 2014 (UTC) Me too. Without the hyphen it could be synonymous with "driven...

this to Skype myself, but figured the hyphen in its name would render the redirect implausible. Without a hyphen, a redirect would indeed be the way to...

Saints. The term Latter Day Saint (note the capitalization and lack of a hyphen) refers to adherents during the lifetime of Joseph Smith. Thus, in order...

that column. In the second table, make the hyphen in Job Street - Hamilton Avenue an en dash, and add a hyphen to "3 storey" in the note. Remove all caps...

in whether you use %, percent or per cent Done Look at WP:HYPHEN - you're missing hyphens in some places Done The pictures don't always match up to the...

need for a separate entry with hyphen (Hybrid automatic repeat-request) that just redirects to the main page without hyphen (Hybrid automatic repeat request)...

not just you. Rojomoke (talk) 09:10, 17 June 2016 (UTC) It has a hidden hyphen in the middle. You can confirm this by either making the IE window much...

Arthur Verrier No hyphen between Lieutenant Colonel and no link for the Lieutenant Colonel? Added the link. Regarding the hyphens, I think it could go...

believe it would be a hyphen for "mid-1920s" and just a space for "late 1920s" ("late" is an adjective, not a prefix). (b) MOS:HYPHEN #2 covers prefixes...

it. NBC used to have references to the name with a hyphen, now the Dunder Mifflin site has no hyphen. There is a discussion going on the Dunder Mifflin...

country" - which country? "spawned the hit-single" - should not have a hyphen ""Tik Tik Boom" features American rapper T.I.." - don't have two full stops...

(push to talk) 02:01, 20 October 2013 (UTC) "newly-Communist": no hyphen per WP:HYPHEN "An estimated total of approximately": All estimated totals are approximate...

Greta Thunberg in Swedish Pronunciation of "af" Question about punctuation: hyphen, dash, en-dash, or em-dash Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019...

16:05, 10 January 2024 (UTC) I'd have written "size-symmetric", with a hyphen. The spelling in the article is inconsistent; there are 16 occurrences of...

this recommended use of the hyphen has often been disputed because many Asian American groups object to the use of the hyphen, and because the United States...

the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for "Tip of the day"...

state historic preservation offices Monitor pages with title disagreement (Hyphen vs. dash, etc.) and fix connections Improve NRHP tools and help pages...

update has been provided, following last month's Signpost coverage of the hyphens/dashes motions: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/dash drafting is open for...

" - Hyphen in "26-run win"? Style and personality "When the pitch was suitable for spinning the ball, he bowled medium paced off breaks." - Hyphen in "medium-paced"...

imperial-pigeon with a hyphen, but the article on it does not use the hyphen.....? This list uses Clements taxonomy, which adds the hyphens for the common name...

whether the lack of a hyphen could lead to ambiguity.--Shantavira|feed me 11:41, 21 January 2011 (UTC) (ec) I would definitely use a hyphen - a similar example...

Latter-day Saints should not capitalize the initial the and should include a hyphen and a lower-case "d". Example: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

Yes, it is acceptable. See Hyphen#Suspended hyphens (version of 15:12, 18 June 2013) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens (version of 14:32, 27 June...

the story of two monsters who passionately fall for each other. Hyphen#Suspended hyphens says ""investor-owned and -operated" is fine, but what about "circus...

capital letters here. " of 5,051[45]- 53% of the population" en-dash, not a hyphen here. "Sheriff Hill compared" I'd add a year for that in the title. "A*-C"...

language is this? Help translating a motto into English Arabic names: ابن Hyphens and parsing of prefixes and suffixes "Br," "Freund" and "Freundin" -Dialects...

eurotrance. Eurobeat, eurodance, europop are mostly written without a space or a hyphen. The spelling should probably be the same in all cases? But in fact, all...

I'd prefer hyphens for both. Tezero (talk) 17:09, 30 November 2014 (UTC) I'm really not sure on that, Oxford dictionary uses the hyphen for 'pre-release'...

this topic area, those discretionary sanctions would continue to apply. Hyphens and dashes dispute – update The moratorium reported in earlier Signpost...

specifically the German Shepherd - being " - use en or em dash here instead of hyphen.  Done There's possibly a more accurate link for your Medial condyle of...

which makes sense as written. Do you mean to use 'English-only', with a hyphen? I think "This subject is an English-only topic." makes reasonable sense...

recently obtained, per WP:HYPHEN "located near Ethiopia": near Ethiopia "Somali-land": I haven't seen the old name with a hyphen before, and it's not hyphenated...

herself) 17:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC) Rename per nom with the hyphen. I'm used to tagging stubs with a hyphen between words, and "rugby" is a separate word from...

compound modifiers before nouns by using hyphens to hold the compounds together. As WP:HYPHEN states, hyphens are used: 3. To link related terms in compound...

story. Powers T 14:47, 6 February 2013 (UTC) Thank heavens there wasn't a hyphen in the title. --Surturz (talk) 20:57, 6 February 2013 (UTC) No, but there...

"technical" difference between the two: listing years with a slash or a hyphen Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 August 11 Naya Rivera pronunciation...

name, i.e. the first name, , but an = sign for the hyphen, but not so in Korean. In Chinese, the hyphen could be used, but I doubt it is obligatory. KägeTorä...

fall". F/stop at CAT, then: "Some, however, are closely…" whilst again Hyphen required in company-owned You don’t need both "typically" and "include"...

superscript should appear after the comma; "voodoo practicing" needs a hyphen; "although much her her family was not so lucky" has an accidental echo...

a backslash and several random digits. New scheme is just "first name" hyphen "last name" with some variations if there are multiple players with the...

keeping the hyphen ("Trois-Rivieres"), by dropping the hyphen but keeping the accent ("Trois Rivières") or by dropping both the accent and the hyphen ("Trois...

sentence are not in correct numerical order Doesn't "re-release" have a hyphen? Stereogum is spelt incorrectly in refs 7 and 17 Think that's it from me...

stats)     [ Closure: keep/retarget/delete ] This title contains both a hyphen-minus (-) and a non-ASCII hyphen (‐). Most keyboards contain only the former. –LaundryPizza03...

Prolific number of minor edits, mostly style-related (capitalization, hyphens, relentless removal of serial commas, etc.), often helpful, but often wrong...

replace a space with a hyphen in a surname replace a hyphen with a space in a proper name replace a hyphen with a dash remove a hyphen, leaving a compound...

with matches played in all states" - use the en-dash here instead of the hyphen, and also, I assume you'll explain that if games are played in all six states...

not represent a vowel. BTW, Чьрнобы­ль above contains a so-called soft hyphen; hardening it results in Чьрнобы-ль. Is dit intentional?  ​‑‑Lambiam 22:12...

01:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC) Support, I've replaced a few en-dashes with hyphens, particularly in 'anti-submarine', but it is well-written, comprehensive...

"two as...". Year ranges should use the en-dash per WP:DASH instead of the hyphen. Headings should not have citations. A lot of redlinks. "In 1900, the Clube...

2015 (UTC) Cornerstones: 1967-1970 is redirecting to a dash instead of a hyphen (twice) Fixed. —Ojorojo (talk) 21:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC) Why is the table...

licenced (no action required); In the lead, should "reestablished" have a hyphen, i.e. "re-established"? There is some inconsistency in how you deal with...

million per MOSNUM.  Done "number-one", " at number-six on" no hyphen necessary. (The hyphen in "the number-one spot" is fine though...)  Done Where are...

ending in 絵 (e), place a hyphen directly before the "e" in the romanized word (e.g., yamato-e, ukiyo-e). Do not use a hyphen for words ending with 画 (ga)...

a fork of template:sclass to instead use a hyphen per wp:ship's plan to rename ship classes to use hyphens. I'm not opposed to this but find it silly...

the hyphen required an amendment to Template:Lang, which of course resulted in the other language categories that use that template having the hyphen added...

the arrangement? It doesn't say, and must. En dash for one year range, hyphen for another. Please see WP:MOSDASH. Tony (talk) 09:56, 16 March 2011 (UTC)...

in the examples above; use a hyphen when "2-foot" is modifying a noun and use "2 feet" when it's not, and don't use hyphens with abbreviated units. "4-inch-thick...

(with a hyphen). Or, it might be printed as Juan Alvarez Ocasio (without a hyphen). So, my questions: How do you alphabetize such names? Is the hyphen mandatory...

are followed by a hyphen. According to the Wikipedia Manual of Style these should not be hyphenated. This bot will remove these hyphens in a semi-automated...

insert "has" after "Rogers" and say "livestreamed". Also, wouldn't you hyphen it as "pre-release"? "and his excitement for local multiplayer..."—He thought...

would certainly indicate that an en dash, not a hyphen, should be used here, but an em dash or hyphen may be correct in other languages. A centralized...

necessarily a majority).—msh210℠ 17:03, 22 October 2010 (UTC) According to Hyphen#Compound modifiers, paragraph 3 (permanent link here), the phrase more-important...

too many per WP:LEAD. Page ranges in references need to use en-dash, not hyphen, per WP:DASH. Are you convinced that Compliant (JTF-GTMO) will ever have...

with a hyphen rather than endash per WP:DASH. They should probably be in the form of "X aircraft (YEAR–YEAR)", but at the very least, the hyphens should...

English football. "immediate post World War Two period" probably a bunch of hyphens missing here! Is League Championship capitalised or not? "The club's most...

character. Malcolm Farmer Searches now reject hyphens (2002/03/05) I re-ran the search for a term with a hyphen: I tried looking for "Bain-marie" and instead...

with royalty Why are these similar symbols so important to distinguish? Hyphen, dash, minus, ndash, mdash, etc. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2022...

need to be correctly spelled, and any confusion from the lack of a hyphen (a hyphen which, of course, still appears in the redirect's target) is outweighed...

(UTC) This term should not use a hyphen: "income-tax evasion" Fixed.--Wehwalt (talk) 00:46, 12 October 2012 (UTC) The hyphen in "labor-management conflicts"...

fifteen wrestlers." "21"-->twenty-one. "The NWA Hall of Fame logo (2008-)" Hyphen should be an en dash. Fix the dab. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:09, 19 January 2009...

be consistently duplicated in new entries. Often editors will use the - (hyphen) instead of the – (endash) without knowing the difference. The External...

language(s): AWB Source code available: AWB Function overview: Replace hyphens with endashes within the "years" set of parameters in {{Infobox gridiron...

In-situ conservation was first spelled with the hyphen, but appears in some places without the hyphen. I believe the same thing happened to the phrase...

of the cast & crew fell ill" Missing hyphens: "under cranked", "double exposed", "a 100 page". Superfluous hyphens: "by the second-unit who" Ellipses:...

500-metre (1,600 ft) -wide strip" according to WP:HYPHEN. Where the convert template is used, the hyphen can be added by using the adj=on parameter. Personally...

to Cynthia Reinhart King. Also, check whether her surname should have a hyphen. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:04, 24 April 2023 (UTC) Redirect to Cynthia Reinhart-King...

Geraes-class battleships" (note the hyphen) used? If this is correct, presumably the title of this article should also have a hyphen. Ucucha 11:14, 5 August 2010...

for such categories. Just rename the two current outliers from spaced to hyphen: Category:FC Goa related lists to Category:FC Goa-related lists Category:Kerala...

Important: Do not use spaces in the search. Instead... For phrases, use a hyphen ( - ) between each word. For example, to search for "Tip of the day", use...

Category:Attorneys general of Sierra Leone Nominator's rationale: There is no hyphen in the main article Attorney General and Minister of Justice Propose renaming...

Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen? File:Loser (Berg ...that the...

exception of the hyphen. The hyphen is not consistently employed for the rank in Australian usage, it being more common now for the hyphen not to be used...

useful redirect. However, Wikipedia's search now treats hyphens as spaces when no redirect with hyphens exists; anybody searching for Large tongue-orchid will...

few cat pages for American people recently were not renamed from no hyphen to hyphen in voting on this page.) these names use two words, an adjective 'fooian'...

en-dash. There are other instances, numerical separation by en-dash not hyphen. Applies to year ranges as well (e.g. in the infobox) and page ranges in...

the final section about quantum models, please use — rather than a hyphen for the em dash punctuation. Thanks. — RJH (talk) 20:55, 13 October 2006...

should just be a hyphen, not an endash. WP:DASH is the policy link.  Done....where I assumed the need applied to revert to hyphens. Farawayman (talk)...

of cycling teams that consist of two sponsors should be written with a hyphen and not a dash. (See here.) That is the convention that the cycling project...

War" Needs an en dash, not a hyphen. Multiple occurences of this. "Philippine-American War" Needs and en dash, not a hyphen. Multiple occurences of this...

tendency persists.) History (preamble) after "education" an ndash, not a hyphen, is required, although in this instance a colon might be better. English...

was known as the "Matadors" from 1925–1936," - "from 1925 to 1936"? The hyphen doesn't scan well as a word in a construction like this.  Done "to reflect...

"caste lines" with no hyphen. "the Maratha-Kunbi" - This looks like a term that needs an en dash for disjuncture rather than a hyphen; i.e., Maratha–Kunbi...

could add "Sources:" before the three sources. "from 1977-2007" replace the hyphen with "to" or if you insist, it'll need to be an en-dash per WP:DASH. What...

differently by every kernel, depending on it's design and implementation ..." Hyphen required, but "above-listed" is so ungainly. Please learn "it's" versus...

Definitely not a semi-colon/comma. Your options are commas, brackets, or hyphens. Hyphens work well. Parentheses work just as well: "... this plasmid was modified...

and the term is being used as a single word now in many languages. The hyphen is no longer necessary. We're thus adopting "ecobricks" as the go-to term...

Comments "recording two second place finishes" - I would say there should be a hyphen in "second-place" "However, this was followed" - don't think a sentence...

the hyphen is obviously just because of the line break, but perhaps it's a combo word where he combines "reconcile" and "able" and thus a hyphen is needed...

2022 (UTC) So is the hyphen dying out in relation to these words? For most of those listed above, I would write them with a hyphen between the two words...

noticed that your ISBN numbers need to be hyphened. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:38, 24 August 2015 (UTC) Added hyphens since I have no strong opinions either way...

Category:B-Class Foobar articles, etc. (example). Usually these have a hyphen, and a capital C in Class. Place the main Category:Foobar articles by quality...

(was:'Welcomeg') As of 2025-12-06. Note mismatch in pagename and hidden tag (no hyphen). As of 19 Dec 2025. Created in 2025. Token added on 2 Sept 2025 A zero...

one. I don't. No hyphen would seem to be necessary.--Shantavira|feed me 06:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC) It's really two words, and a hyphen isn't necessary....

called just as "website"? Eurohunter (talk) 22:51, 19 April 2019 (UTC) Every hyphen (-) needs to be changed to en-dashes (–) Why Self-publishing has no em dash...

a hyphen, do you think? Apterygial 02:38, 28 February 2009 (UTC) Couldn't think of a way of describing it, hence the quote marks. I'd say no hyphen. AlexJ...

that we have three different dash-like symbols: -(hyphen) –(en dash) —(em dash) We have the hyphen on our keyboards, but can select the other two symbols...

you look at ngrams of various compound adjectives with and without the hyphen e.g left handed vs left-handed, nine year old vs nine-year-old or [old fashioned...

) terminology Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 August 31 Hyphen Double negatives No hay salvavidas trabajando Are the following two sentences...

spelled with a hyphen (as it is in the title of this article). In fact, when I first saw the title I thought "back-lash" (with the hyphen) was some sort...

have always used the hyphen myself, and my "American Heritage dic•tion•ar•y of the English Language" also list the word with a hyphen. I don't know where...

August 2006 (UTC) I would use a hyphen. In general, when a two-word concept is used as a modifier, it gets a hyphen: "real-estate agent", "water-supply...

Harvard inline, some cite.php), mixed dash styles, unlinked full dates, hyphens instead of negative signs, template mid-sections (further info). Article...

than spaced hyphen (per WP:DASH) in ref titles. And ref 98 (for instance) should be pp. rather than p. and use an en-dash rather than a hyphen in the range...

development Hincmar of Rheims block quote: I don't know if the source uses hyphens as parenthetic dashes, but the MoS tells us that we can, and should, silently...

"DESKTOP-S5VAG67" are generated, but I'm 99% sure that the part after the hyphen is random, with no hidden information. It's there just to minimize the chance...

by Anthony Bradbury. --BDD (talk) 16:40, 17 November 2015 (UTC) F-hyphen-hyphen-hyphen → Fuck  (links · history · stats)     [ Closure: keep/retarget/delete ] ...

conversion template. "(660 ft)-700 metres" endash, not hyphen "limestone derived" needs hyphen "The final phase of glacial activity occurred between marine...

surrogacy Done ensemble cast heist thriller --> doesn't look right to me. Hyphen? Hyphens? add "the"? in 2005 romantic comedy --> in the 2005 romantic comedy...

reader that triple-expansion engines are steam engines, with the proper hyphen and a link in both places. You'd think at some point I'd remember to do...

think not guilty is the correct usage (without hyphen). The Wikipedia article Acquittal uses no hyphen, but that can't be regarded as a reputable source...

correct. Soft hyphens (SHY) are invisible until the line needs to break on the word that holds the soft hyphen. In this case, the soft hyphens are oddly placed;...

someone from one of the dash sides complains about being one of the WP:Hyphen luddites -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 10:59, 4 September 2013 (UTC) Shannon Richison...

formal term. Hadrianheugh Hyphens are not used as interrupters. See MOS on em dashes. Good comment. I have sought out all the hyphen punctuation crutches and...

citation numbers in the article. Date ranges take en dashes rather than hyphens. I fixed some of these, but I see others in the "Notables" section. History...

of shaykh/sheikh. I've also checked various permutations -- no hyphens at all, hyphen only with ul-Aqtab, "Shaykh Zain", "Shaykh Siddiqi" (and both with...

(in the image caption) should use an en-dash, not a hyphen. Done. Ref 1 also has a spaced hyphen which should be an endash. Done. That's it on a quick...

also hosted on non-Wikimedia websites. The Dash tool converts dashes, hyphens, and minus signs to their proper format per the Manual of Style. Particularly...

probably right on both of your hyphen-related queries. i.e. "fellow Englishman" (no hyphen necessary) and "21st-century" (hyphen necessary for the adjectival...

I do not have a reference ready. See: Hyphen#Compound modifiers, paragraph 5 Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens, section 3, point 7 -- Wavelength (talk)...

between advocates of en-dashes and em-dashes and the resulting backlash from "hyphen luddites". G, S Earlier this month, ITM reported on a Canadian government...

Ship (add caps for "Ship"); in the References, most of the ISBNs have hyphens but those for Breyer and Gardiner & Gray don't. These should be consistent...

Style#Semicolons Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens: "sub subsections" 1 and 2 and 3 Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens: Multi-hyphenated items; Spacing; Image...

use hyphens for pronunciation-related matters. When the Japanese government introduced a Japanese romanization rule (1937) that employs a hyphen when...

should not be a hyphen in the expression differently abled. See Hyphen#Compound modifiers, paragraph 4. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens, sub-subsection...

the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for "Tip of the day"...

ranges take en dashes instead of hyphens. Some of the citations have them, but others like citation 11 have hyphens that should be replaced. References...

Each hyphen indicates a level of hierarchy, as explained at WP:WSS/NC. If we needed and had a separate dwarf-star-stub, then using the extra hyphen would...

Instead of hyphens for some of your citations put solid dashes (you can find them on the toolbox on the bottom of the page). I only found one hyphen in the...

specific reason why the hyphen is necessary? Couldn't it be replaced as "in Polish Maczuga, because the ridge..." w/o the hyphen? Would correct myself,...

2006 (UTC) 'Oppose. I believe the hyphen is correct. ExRat 02:08, 4 July 2006 (UTC) Oppose As with the other hyphen discussions on this page, I'd prefer...

Year ranges (in the headings for example) should use an en-dash, not a hyphen, per WP:DASH. "Roger Crozier was identified" no need to repeat Roger. Apply...

world expert on dashes to hand :))) --ROGER DAVIES talk Hyphens: Basically, replace hyphens used as parentheses either by spaced endashes, or unspaced...

but since I don't have the poem in front of me, I'm not sure about the hyphen. Oh, I see you've used them in the next paragraph but without spaces; those...

citations should follow WP:CITE, year separators should use en-dash not hyphen (per WP:DASH), use {{convert}} template for measurements. Headings need...

moved to The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, the version with hyphen being the official title. Coyote kings of space age bachelor pad (sic) survives...

copro-duction to avoid the ambiguity with co-production. Given that the hyphens appear in different places in these words that are otherwise identically...

you use a hyphen b/n the name and the class, i.e "Regina Margherita-class battleship" but the headings and the prose you don't use a hyphen. I haven't...

Kpalion(talk) 05:42, 3 March 2014 (UTC) There has been disagreement about hyphen use in a TFL blurb that is scheduled to go up on the main page in a few...

anthem". The spaced hyphen is not used in Wikipedia articles, and page ranges and date ranges take an en dash rather than a hyphen. I ran a script to fix...

subpage: remove the {{search}} template and add a note after the trailing hyphen. This will help with automatic calculation of the statistics. It's possible...

the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for "Tip of the day"...

MoS). Spell out the 8. Hyphens required, or try reversing as above. Is it left-center and right-center fields (a hanging hyphen is required, see MoS),...

range needs an endash, rather than a hyphen. The same in "Czech, Danuta (1997)". In "Fatran, Gila (2007)", the hyphen in "SNM - Múzeum Židovskej" need to...

without. After reviewing the MOS on hyphens, I removed the unnecessary hyphen from map reading and added any missing hyphens to compound adjectives. I may have...

Support hyphens until category redirects automatically categorize articles into the correct category. Relying on a bot is problematic, and using hyphens eliminates...

scattered light", although I see they have a clarification now. Do these need a hyphen as well (i.e. forward-scattered)? "broken power law", "normalizing parameter"...

Vietnamese American is a noun. If we hyphenize it, it becomes an adjective. DHN 01:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC) Do not rename A hyphen should not be used when describing...

discussion was keep those with a single dash/hyphen with spaces around them, and delete the rest (double hyphens, no spaces, all caps). Due to the divergence...

 Done--Legionarius 21:46, 28 September 2007 (UTC) See WP:DASH; in many cases you use hyphens instead of ndashes and mdashes. Done Not sure if it is because of my keyboard...

lower portions of the article. Long sentences can be split, or commas/hyphens can be added. Also, key concepts should be repeated to be noticed when...

noun, so there's no reason for a hyphen. Later on, it's a compound adjective so would normally be hyphenated. See Hyphen#Compound modifiers. "except" again...

article was previously speedily deleted (same article name without the hyphen between Hindi-Urdu). Clearly not notable. SnottyWong talk 21:38, 17 December...

no need for a hyphen because the meaning is literally a line of cells. As a general rule (there are no hard and fast rules), the hyphen is only necessary...

2010 (UTC) Per MoS, a hyphen is not used after a standard -ly adverb. Textorus (talk) 09:33, 22 September 2010 (UTC) If a hyphen is not used after a standard...

say "in the 15th century, this happened" (no hyphen) but "this 15th-century window" (adjective, hyphen) stained glass link removed (someone else added...

describing people we should not use a hyphen. "Asian" is an adjective describing the American. Using the hyphen is a bad representation because it creates...

needs a hyphen here. No, this is a "missile, firing", not "a missile-firing ship". for the free electron laser Free electron needs a hyphen. This is...

"crossing out" or "cancelling out" to be with a slash/virgule, and not with a hyphen or dash. Also: if the word is, say, "purple", I want one (long/big/extended)...

first 100 hits: 54% without the hyphen, 42% with the hyphen, and 4% not applicable.Pat 22:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC) No hyphen per the Chicago Manual of Style...

Comments – Publisher of ref 6 (The Economic Times) should be italicized.  Done Hyphen in the title of ref 2 should instead be an en dash.  Done Giants2008 (Talk)...

2021 (UTC) flying off point - add hyphen? Searching Google Books indicates that British English works don't have a hyphen here. Nick-D (talk) 05:30, 10 October...

instance. "22-year" needs a hyphen I have a non-breaking space. I guess I don't know when to use non-breaking spaces and hyphens. "Also during Owen's tenure...

duplication either. Some of the footnotes have a hyphen in "free agent" and some don't. I don't think the hyphen should be there, but it should be consistent...

pm Function overview: Create redirects from the title with hyphens for pages with titles containing en-dashes. Links to relevant discussions...

content lack citations. The sentence-breaking dashes flip-flop between a hyphen and an em-dash. There are multiple paragraphs that seem too brief at 1-2...

should probably use lower case for consistency with other headings. The hyphen is not style for introduction of following sections (under WikiProjects...

(e.g. in the first image caption). "first-place" or "second place" - to hyphen or not - choose but be consistent. Only three from outside the US - worth...

22:06, 27 December 2022 (UTC) MOS: HYPHENMOS: HYPHEN → Wikipedia:Manual of Style#MOS:HYPHEN  ([[Talk:MOS: HYPHEN|talk]] · links · history ·...

(A person is "suspected of" bad behavior.) "locally-designed" no hyphen per WP:HYPHEN and per most style guides Support on prose per new standard disclaimer...

title with a ndash between the years. The first redirect article uses a hyphen between the years. A second redirect uses the full National Hockey League...

nomination. Like the new lead image too (although I think there needs to be a hyphen in "racially-diverse"). Great work, overall! A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs)...

all tables seem to have odd sizing from section to section. " 8–year " hyphen not en-dash, there are other issues here (see WP:DASH). Image captions are...

that column. In the second table, make the hyphen in Job Street - Hamilton Avenue an en dash, and add a hyphen to "3 storey" in the note. Remove all caps...

the use of a hyphen, I guess. Card Zero  (talk) 11:50, 28 December 2024 (UTC) It is a rather common rule/guideline/advice to use hyphens in compound modifiers...

the series-no parameter omitted and the number parameter completed with a hyphen followed by the broadcast year and the word "Special". E.g. " - 2007 Special"...

find one for New Mexico. The forms of government should use a dash, not a hyphen. Reywas92Talk 02:12, 23 April 2018 (UTC)  Done Thanks for the review Reywas92...

short. It should summarise the whole article. " re establishment " needs a hyphen. "honorary title" is a disambiguation link so needs to be made more specific...

and hyphen issues if you have a minute spare? Much appreciated, and thanks for the review! D.M.N. (talk) 18:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC) Dashes and hyphens fixed...

hyphen out achieves the desired result.Rathfelder (talk) 23:18, 4 March 2022 (UTC) With hyphen they are e.g. Bengali-speaking people, without hyphen they...

Worrel Trophy would be helpful. I notice that that article doesn't have the hyphen in the middle; that might be worth checking. I don't think the comma after...

Keep the hyphen. Far too many removals of this kind of hyphen when it makes the phrase correct. Just because a phrase is correct without the hyphen in certain...

25 August 2019 (UTC) I see a lot of second lines without hyphens shouldn't they have hyphens? dittoEnigmaMcmxc (talk) 14:22, 25 August 2019 (UTC) free...

September 2020 (UTC) This rhyolitic flare up - believe flare-up needs a hyphen. I don't understand what this sentence is saying at all. Is it referring...

Social-Chauvinism, which is similar but better. Not to Social-traitor. The hyphen suggests that the article was written by a non-native English speaker, I'm...

mispronunciation and "Christieesque" looks weird: Spellings (with or without hyphens) shouldn't rigidly adhere to 'rules' of construction if the results are...

American style guide, but I have checked our own (MOS:HYPHEN) and it says: Avoid using a hyphen after a standard -ly adverb, so removed. Hawkeye7 (discuss)...

Huffington Post, New Hampshire TV, Slate, Salon, the Los Angeles Review, Hyphen magazine, the Hong Kong magazine Cha, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune,...

1977a, p.229-235. and Lyra 1977a, p. 235-238. Replace p. with pp. replace hyphen (–) with n-dash (–) Carvalho 1976, p.250-266. Carvalho 1976, p. 288-290...

inconsistent between St John's-wort at Coldfall Wood, with apostrophe and hyphen, and St Johns wort at The Manor, Havering, with neither. St. John's Wood...

letter never appears more than two times in a row, unless separated by a hyphen or apostrophe (e.g., “princess’s”). The standard spellings of the rare words...

--Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 07:56, 7 July 2016 (UTC) Moby-Dick. No hyphen, no points. Tevildo (talk) 08:08, 7 July 2016 (UTC) I'm not much of a fiction...

double-sets of double-hyphens. All while keeping in mind that many editors (like me) hand-type the 4 tildes, and use a hyphen in their own custom sigs...

a tight lipped silence" There should be a hyphen between "tight lipped". It's a quote. There isn't a hyphen in the quote. (Because it doen't have to follow...

as some such cases, but the naming conventions do suggest that using the hyphen indicates that these stub types are subtypes - e.g., Ancient-Rome-myth-stub...

filenames of images (use hyphens instead). If used in an article's title, there should be a redirect from the version with a hyphen." Added at MOS:IMAGES:...

the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for "Tip of the day"...

chapters of a book. The rule was to observe the attributive (hyphen) / predicative (no hyphen) rule you refer to unless the hyphenated form had its own entry...

the chain. (2) The actual name seems to have been K-B Theatres, with a hyphen (3) The Washington Post referred to it as the area's largest theatre chain...

omits the hyphen, it searches all forms, though it also brings up other many other Dalsgårds--using quotes has the same limiting effect as an hyphen. GS works...

obvious, but not everyone will know what "number-one" refers to (and why the hyphen?) Following on from that "and was eventually made Platinum..." I don't know...

quote marks. "less-fit genotype"—Hyphen necessary? "more-fit" --> "fitter"? "Very low-fitness genotypes"—The hyphen is awkward in this triple epithet...

"Pronunciation of code words" in our articles gives pronunciations for decimal point, hyphen, and full stop. DuncanHill (talk) 14:40, 28 June 2018 (UTC)...

taking ceremonial faceoffs" - Wikilink face-off? Add the hyphen? I thought about adding the hyphen, however the source listed uses the term "faceoff" and...

Godeschalk / Godescalc Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 April 25 Hyphen in Moby-Dick American and British English Floating a horse's teeth Self-pronunciation...

similar issue here; "vice-president" has a hyphen here but not in the lead. Honestly, I wouldn't use a hyphen here, but either way this should also be consistent...

included for each track when possible. Use a spaced en dash (–) rather than a hyphen (-) as a dividing horizontal punctuation mark before the track length. (Note...

13 April 2009 (UTC) Date ranges Date ranges get en dashes rather than hyphens per WP:MOSNUM. The many date ranges, such as 1993-1994, in the tables should...

26 December 2022 (UTC) Yeah I'd rewrite it as "As the most qualified [no hyphen required] candidate, Jack should in theory have been the project leader...

explain this - 18 below par... Centrally align the cells which have just a hyphen in them as well. Why have 1965–1966? Just list them all out individually...

is the adjective that describes the noun "class", you don't need a hyphen. The hyphen is only needed when "Tegetthoff class" is the adjective that describes...

was incorrect: the article was renamed to have an en dash instead of a hyphen between "electron" and "positron". Nothing links here, nor should it. Thanks...

trying to "hide" all this by adding a blank space to the title between the hyphen and "Newton." Check the deletion log for "Harley Viera-Newton" and you'll...

over December 82-January 83" - Date ranges take an en-dash rather than a hyphen. "critic Vincent Canby named the film as one of the 10 best films of 1985...

English Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 18 Proper-hyphen-ation zero/O Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2014 August 19 Chinese...

particular one. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 11:21, 29 July 2013 (UTC) Comments – The hyphen in "by the newly-formed Premier League" should probably be removed. Lead...

periods FN69: missing author FN133 and similar should use dash in title, not hyphen You have no citations to several Bibliography entries - should either cite...

by unspaced endashes; you currently have hyphens. You only have to change those hyphens to endashes. Hyphen (-), endash (–), emdash (—). My comment on...

difference in spelling, function, and meaning may be in the spelling having a hyphen, a space, or neither (set solid). (Linguists recognize as a single word...

article at off by one error. The title with the hyphens is the better title, but the article without the hyphens is by far the better article. Since "merging"...

Aderklaaaal, though I suspect people would prefer to write that with a hyphen. In Welsh, sequences like dd, ff, and ll are actually considered single...

goes to the trouble of typing a hyphen and then uses their shift key, by sending them to a page which is void of hyphens for the desired target. wbm1058...

08:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC) In early-2008, in ... (faulty hyphens) Shouldn't there be a hyphen then, or should it be – ? D.M.N. (talk) 08:04, 29 June 2008...

Tony 13:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC) MOS breach: no hyphen after "ly". "swastika shaped ornaments"—hyphen the double adjective. Pity to have a huge bulleted...

is the only one in common use, but it is also commonly used without any hyphens (i.e.: early eighteenth century). —71.20.250.51 (talk) 06:16, 18 August...

I don't think a redirect is necessary, few people are going to put the hyphen in a search. Tevildo 23:46, 21 June 2006 (UTC) Delete per nom - CrazyRussian...

can be handy too. All date ranges need an unspaced en dash rather than a hyphen or a spaced en dash. In the "Consecutive Drivers Championships" section...

(UTC) the 800-kilometre (500 mi)-long ceasefire line - there's an extra hyphen? Argh! Fixed. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:14, 2 December 2022...

has strange capitalization and leaves out the hyphen {{Seventh-day-Adventist-stub}} overuse of hyphens, but not too bad I prefer the following two names:...

RfA) AnomieBOT⚡ 04:07, 19 March 2020 (UTC) Template:BDDecadesInCenturyNoHyphen (talk · history · transclusions · logs · subpages) Unused template. Its...

retarget to multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, as an obvious alternative hyphening. Melsaran (formerly Salaskаn) 13:45, 6 August 2007 (UTC) I am not sure...

"third-highest" in the lead and "second highest" in the lead photo caption. Whether a hyphen is in the middle or not should be made consistent. In reference 6, Wisden...

list. Parsecboy (talk) 18:52, 10 June 2013 (UTC) Support Comments Add a hyphen to mid 1880s. Done Tell the reader what position Bismarck held in the lede...

think the hyphens are MoS, but inconsistent even if they are. jimfbleak (talk) 07:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC) Comments—1a and 1b Jim, hyphen required when...

leaves" -> "which he would later leave" "first name - even " en-dash, not hyphen. "gave a signal to the hidden fedayees......" then what? Don't overlink...

have "top-five" and "top-ten" (with hyphens), but "top twenty" (without hyphen). My advice is ditch the hyphens Done. Till Last line: "amongst" → "among"...

with the hyphen ("Hispanic and Latino-American") or without the hyphen ("Hispanic and Latino American"). There are 14 categories with the hyphen and 106...

the sources. Baseball-Reference, ESPN, MLB, and Yahoo! Sports all have no hyphen, so I'm moving the article back. That should do it. — KV5 • Talk • 21:42...

text and other foreign text as this is a supervised task) U+00AD - Soft hyphen (all instances of this can be safely removed) The following will be turned...

appropriate as a redirect as I can see many people not thinking of adding a hyphen during a search for this. -- Glen Finney 14:12, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) Keep as...

come up with is tteok-kkochi, where we add a hyphen. This seems sensible, but I can't see that the hyphen is mandatory in Revised Romanization of Korean...

Some Fields, The Existence of Lower [hyphen omitted] Case Initial Letters Is Not Yet Known, And Neither Are Hyphens (E.G. Business Administration, Computer...

a redirect here, but how useful would it really be to have one when the hyphen follows a space? Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:28, 1 November 2005 (UTC) This is...

Special:Linksearch can now handle searches for URLs containing two consecutive hyphens; previously such searches caused the page layout to break up badly. (r31427...

submachine gun, this redirect misspells "Thompson" (as Thomson) and has a hyphen that's not in the target. Not sure whether or not this would be an implausible...

Rambling Man (talk) 20:08, 26 March 2012 (UTC) Quick comment – Ref 2 has a hyphen in the title that should instead be an en dash. Other than that all looks...

2015 (UTC) Cornerstones: 1967-1970 is redirecting to a dash instead of a hyphen (twice) Fixed. —Ojorojo (talk) 21:25, 30 January 2015 (UTC) Why is the table...

suppose I wanted a certain digit to display not only 0–9, but also blank and hyphen. What IC would do that? (Some forward, some reverse.) Note that digits that...

(UTC) It is false that I "want dash/hyphens in titles to be used a certain way". It is a fact that dashes and hyphens are used in a certain way, and I would...

Hoary 11:06, 3 March 2007 (UTC) Hyphen versus en dash? I don't know how to type an en dash into the Search box, so a hyphen would be easier to find. With...

check the edit summaries. - Dank (push to talk) Please remember to take the hyphen out of "counteroffensive". - Dank (push to talk) 20:30, 12 January 2013...

symbol (Bungalow) is not available on commons. The other parties (with a hyphen in the symbols column) are not recognised parties and therefore they don't...

should also be followed: Do not add the {{DEFAULTSORT}} magic word with hyphens missing Communes starting with Saint- are always sorted before communes...

this date "club record fee" - perhaps a hyphen between club and record? "league leaders Notts County" - a hyphen here too? Aftermath "Taylor remained manager...

2012 (UTC) "The three Cutie Mark Crusaders - Apple Bloom," not a spaced hyphen, an en-dash per WP:DASH here please. "to retrieve the box, however, the...

September 2013 (UTC) Quick comment – An en dash is needed to replace the hyphen in the title of reference 133. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:07, 20 September 2013...

electoral districts that actually use a double hyphen in the name, (3) occasionally, a substitution for a single hyphen (presumably some sort of escaping), (4)...

of Style recommends "animal product–free", with an en dash rather than a hyphen, for cases like this. —Angr/talk 07:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC) The Chicago...

type that book's individual ISBN into this ISBN search box. Spaces and hyphens in the ISBN do not matter. Also, the number starts after the colon for...

the middle reference. "with neighbours the" is ungainly. And further: No hyphen after -ly. "Eastern Suburbs, as they were more commonly known as, were also...

subsequent lesbian activities for instance). Use spaced en-dash, not spaced hyphen in the date range (see WP:DASH for details). Two dabs - episcopal and Frances...

Being too lazy to slog through Hyphen, how do I handle "his second hand car salesman friend"? Clarityfiend (talk) 04:50, 15 June 2008 (UTC) I would turn...

-ly adjectives should not have hyphens following them. Dabomb87 (talk) 03:19, 25 December 2008 (UTC) WP:HYPHEN: "A hyphen is not used after a standard -ly...

(talk) 05:03, 12 May 2013 (UTC) Reference 1 needs an en dash to replace the hyphen in the title per the MoS. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:35, 10 May 2013 (UTC) Done...

the search, separate them by a plus sign, +. For a phrase search, use a hyphen (minus sign), -, between each word. E.g. to search for "Tip of the day"...

and its evolution over time into a complex and convoluted dropping of the hyphen to become "Asian American"; and the history of cross-racial solidarity....

Comments "...of the most anti-Semitic films ..." why the capital S and hyphen? Opening sentence used "antisemitic", be internally consistent. I would...

Spell out numbers under 10 Check punctuation throughout, particularly hyphens/dashes Prose in general is a bit dense and inaccessible to non-specialist...

March 2008 (UTC) I could be wrong, but I don't think then-wife needs a hyphen. I think self titled does need one. I'm gonna hit save now and keep working...

into this section. "the policeman of the title--was very" strange double hyphen. Films section is listprose, it needs to be tightened up and made to flow...

printed as "keepy-uppy", with a hyphen (it is in several non-football dictionaries in that form) On the question of hyphens, are you sure about "last-man"...

bankrupcy"? Changed to when.--SRX 21:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC) "mid–2003" hyphen, not dash Fixed.--SRX 21:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC) "The ECW Championship...

Atlantic magazine. A small point: The references write Char-lanta with a hyphen, so perhaps the article should be moved there. Eastmain (talk • contribs)...

Guard hull numbers always start with a "W". Pennant numbers do not have a hyphen or space (this matches the number as it typically appears on the side of...

April 2014 (UTC) We don't use a hyphen in cases like this. WP:HYPHEN sub-subsection 3, bullet point 4 says "A hyphen is not used after a standard -ly...

performing during their 2006-2007 tour" caption should use en-dash not hyphen for year separator. Order citations numerically, there's an [8][7] at the...

correct. I found a few that weren't, where endashes were used instead of hyphens. I've fixed a few, but it needs fresh eyes to find them. Endashes should...

Minor (to me): After I replaced a hyphen with a dash in the References, I noticed a bunch of time ranges use hyphens, date ranges use spaced en dashes...

defunct project of the European Commission known as "Mobi-Dev" (note the hyphen). Psiĥedelisto (talk) 03:50, 11 May 2020 (UTC) Agreed. Thankyou for spotting...

should be capitalized for the reference 8 language indication, and the hyphen in reference 19 should be an en dash. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 03:11...

needs two hyphens. In the first paragraph of the lede, you have 14-year-old, which is correct, but "16 year-old", which needs the second hyphen. Ditto for...

happen if he was turned into a one-liner? Incidentally, it should not have a hyphen with no spaces, but a dash instead, like – or — with spaces. I hate seeing...

an hyphen. Added hyphen. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:38, 18 August 2019 (UTC) mounted on small wheeled dollies Small wheeled needs an hyphen. Added hyphen. Hawkeye7...

a category redirect for former names and for category renames involving hyphen to ndash conversion. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:30, 12 September 2013 (UTC)...

signature with timestamp" edit button to use a real em dash instead of two hyphens. (function () { var oldAddButton = window.addButton; if (typeof(oldAddButton)...

debate was REDIRECT to Self-fashioning. My British English would have the hyphen, so that's where I'll redirect to, but it's not important. The two articles...

Commonwealth Style Guide says: Don’t use hyphens when the phrase is after the noun in the sentence structure. So no hyphens. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:05, 5 August...

16, 2011" – released how, which format? "limited edition" should have a hyphen when used attributively. "with a third film containing an original story...

users links to their contributions rather than their userpage), with no hyphens included in the signature (they were added by an administrator and then...

(two times). This I'm not sure about. I've been studying endashes and hyphens ever since my great embarrassment on the FAC for Sacagawea dollar, and...

ranges. Use an en dash (–). Right now, you have an em dash in ref 1 and a hyphen in ref 6. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2009 (UTC) Dashes all round.  MPJ-DK  (No...

real assertion of notability, a whopping one ghit [1] (after removing the hyphen). Probable WP:COI/HOAX based on creator's edit history. People dream things...

a hyphen or, per the MOS, an en dash. The admin moving it to the hyphen argued that this was indicated by TITLE because most sources use a hyphen, and...

overview: Automatically patrol redirects that only differ in the use of dashes/hyphens/etc Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Edit period(s):...

Black Falcon (talk) 21:52, 4 July 2012 (UTC) Various templates without a hyphen before bio were moved to -bio in May 2006, but because there was not a listing...

upon request once the bot is unleashed. Function overview: To replace hyphens by minus signs in superscripts and subscripts, as appropriate Links to...

May 2011 (UTC) Comment – Can only find one exceedingly minor point: the hyphen in "newly-created" should probably be removed. Giants2008 (27 and counting)...

should end of year be hyphenated? "number one" or "number-one". Note: the hyphen usage depends on whether "number one" is used as a noun or an adjective...

so close to the text. Hyphens cannot be used as interruptors. See MOS on dashes. "multi-award winning webshow"—Another hyphen required. A sentence that...

no hyphen is used, and there'd be a hatnote on the camera's article. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 19:52, 3 December 2013 (UTC) Hyphens are...

February 2014 (UTC) It should have a hyphen.--Jeffro77 (talk) 11:09, 18 February 2014 (UTC) Definitely. See Hyphen#Compound modifiers. It's pretty straightforward...

steam engines Missing hyphen between "three shaft". Fixed Germany had limited access to high quality coal Same as above needs a hyphen between high quality...

Presumably they stopped at night?! Year ranges need to use en-dash, not hyphen. I'd like an introductory sentence for the rules section, it's a bit bland...

FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Searching with the hyphens brings up basically nothing, and searching without the hyphens brings up basically nothing. I'm finding...

before back vowels where soft C sound is other than /s/? Does English use hyphen when one of the parts of closed compound is a number, sign or abbreviation...

difference appears to be the hyphen. The first is a non-breaking hyphen while the second is a hyphen-minus (the hyphen at keyboards). Super Ψ Dro 14:08...

date/author etc information. Refs with page ranges need to use an en-dash, not a hyphen, per WP:DASH. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:48, 11 April 2012 (UTC)...

Fanoftheworld (talk) 15:35, 5 June 2009 (UTC) See Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Hyphens and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dashes. -- Wavelength (talk) 15:45, 5 June...

Buffalo: Don't know if the hyphen in "heavily-favored" is needed. Generally, hyphens after -ly elements are discouraged. Hyphen needed in "74 yard". Fixed...

"liberal conservative" is a compound modifier. If it is, then the hyphen is needed, see WP:HYPHEN, and we should reverse a bunch of renamings passed unopposed...

Schoenberg quote, is "near–tone" meant to have an en-dash instead of a hyphen? Would you want a copy of "Cowell's Clusters", Michael Hicks, The Musical...

creating his son - the future Edward II" - en dash needed instead of a hyphen Y Done Following WP:DASH, I've now consistently used spaced en dash, rather...

"culture" in the headings. For ranges of numbers, use the en-dash, not the hyphen, per WP:DASH. References like you have in this article can be split so you...

in people's names, e.g., P. G. Wodehouse Compound adjectives need hyphens. A hyphen shouldn't be placed after an -ly word if it is an adverb, e,g., widely...

that I can find to Njaro are to the mountain Kilimanjaro written with a hyphen or as two words. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 15:49, 16 February 2010 (UTC)...

"formerly six - the Trusteeship Council suspended operations in 1994" The hyphen should be an unspaced em dash. I see "citation needed" tags, make these...

new single-entity place name, a hyphen, not a dash, is appropriate: the manual of style says, "Generally, use a hyphen in compounded proper names of single...

(talk) 20:04, 14 April 2012 (UTC) Hyphen: "African American oral tradition .." - AA used as adjective needs hyphen. He he, I laugh because those two words...

--Wehwalt (talk) 21:02, 7 October 2019 (UTC) a coin collecting journal Needs a hyphen Not sure it does in AmEng.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:02, 7 October 2019 (UTC) It's...

(UTC) Use em dashes instead of hyphens. Example: Watch dash use: en dashes for ranges. Currently, you're using hyphens. Example: "2012 - 2013" in the...

WP:DASH these should not be endashes but should just be normal hyphens; I have normal hyphen at the said point not – in the "Luftwaffe anti-aircraft units"...

seen is actually in bisyllabic given names and whether to use a space, a hyphen, or nothing between the syllables. For instance I had a professor who was...

Winter Olympics." Seems to me that the bracketing hyphens should be em dashes; they shouldn't be hyphens to start with, and em dashes are used similarly...

country the in the same way as Brezhnev had." Done Konstantin Chemenko: Hyphen in "72-years old" should be removed as well. Done Not a big deal, but the...

Rewrite - almost 400 google hits in English (if you spell it also without hyphen) and 130 hits in Russian language. I think there is a potential for expanding...

g b ) Hard error ( wp g b ) Hard failure ( wp g b ) Hard hyphen ( wp g b ) - C.f. Soft hyphen - own article? Hard macro ( wp g b ) Hard token ( wp g b...

Yęzýkin (talk) 12:01, 14 July 2018 (UTC) The dashes (hyphens) indicate divisions between morphemes. A hyphen following a form means that it must be followed...

American English orthography used? Follow-up to "another who/whom" above: hyphen in well-known File:Soy sauce in supermarket.JPG Wikipedia:Reference_des...

"September 2004 - February 2005" needs to have an en dash instead of a hyphen. "April 2007 - TBA" Same here. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:48, 29 September 2008...

referring to. There is a site, http://teripets.com (note that they do not use a hyphen, so it might not even be the same thing); its Alexa ranking is 283,813,...

dashes and hyphens need to be checked throughout the article. See WP:DASH for more information. "An English-Konkani Dictionary" the hyphen should be replaced...

this section. The result of the discussion was: rename as proposed (no hyphen). -- Tavix (talk) 04:02, 14 September 2016 (UTC) Propose renaming Category:Standard...

meet the FA criteria. I may be seeing the occasional missing article or hyphen, but I'll let the grammar experts check that. =) —RJH (talk) 22:17, 23 April...

August 26 CREATIVE WRITING --- SENTENCE OR PARAGRAPH STYLE Hyphen The word 'consultant' Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007 August...

entries WITHOUT the hyphen The journal itself started with a hyphen and dropped it. The majority of hits on Google do not use the hyphen. It seems somewhat...

of linking related terms in a compound modifier. Per Hyphen § Use in English, The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general...

which I was unable to find. I see from one of your links you utilized a hyphen when searching for it, which seems to have done the trick in finding the...

across a line break at either of the hyphens? Or does it have to match with spoken syllables and break at the first hyphen but never at the second? —Mahāgaja...

term. I'd keep, and also create the redirect (with hyphen) as above. Most Wiki articles with a hyphen in the title also exist as a redirect without one...

Dominique-Marie Gauchet" American English "Vice Admiral" no hyphen? I don't know that the hyphen is used as a general rule in British English (or if it is...

typo. Per WP:MOS, "A hyphen is not used after a standard -ly adverb". Chicago and Garner's agree. I removed one re-inserted hyphen. "The Major is never...

"them multipotent - a definite distinction " should be an en-dash, not a hyphen. Check other instances. Link mitosis. "On a whole, neurogenesis" what does...

February 2010 (UTC) You can use what's known as a hard hyphen or a non-breaking hyphen. Replace the hyphen with ‑ and instead of this:...

Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen? 20:17, 29 June 2005 (UTC) ....

generally good, a few thoughts: third person shooter - should there be a hyphen between "third" and person"?  Done Lead could probably be condensed to two...

use hyphens where they should use dashes I'm afraid I don't know what the difference is. Axem Titanium (talk) 19:09, 22 May 2012 (UTC) A hyphen is shorter...

hyphenated, the original hyphen drops. So, a golf-ball dimpler, but a golf ball-sized piece of candy. However, I've sometimes seen hyphens vs. en dashes used:...

(UTC) "The" nixed. Many hyphens fixed (I hope) but I sure could use some examples still in the article of incorrect vs correct hyphen and en/em dash usage...

final "Third" is capitalized an the score of Milan vs. Inter has the wrong hyphen, etc. There are many similar smallish mistakes. (match summary, 5th para:...

were over ambitious" v "initiating an over-ambitious" ie hyphen consistency Added the hyphen Nick-D (talk) 04:34, 20 November 2022 (UTC) all three of...

process steps - try writing out as prose. Number ranges use en-dash, not hyphen, to separate, per WP:DASH. See also section should be bullet pointed. Clean...

located at the shorter link. Once the abbreviation page has been created, the hyphen link should be a {{R from abbreviation}} to the other page. AA0 AA1 AA2...

MOS:HYPHENCAPSMOS:HYPHENCAPS In article text, do not use a capital letter after a hyphen except for terms that would ordinarily be capitalized in running prose,...

21:34, 16 September 2010 (UTC) It also shows up by searching without a hyphen, yielding 41 results of what looks like the same promotional editing.75...

The Author column should be sorting by last name, not first name. The hyphens in the Year column should be en dashes instead. Giants2008 (Talk) 00:14...

Category:Frequency-domain analysis Nominator's rationale: Per MOS:HYPHEN, a hyphen in Frequency-domain analysis is conventional, makes it easier to parse...

with regard to the use of endashes in date ranges. Make sure that all hyphens in date ranges are replaced with endashes. Done - Went over with a MOS...

will be hard to recognize you in a talk page. Whether you include dashes, hyphens, or nothing at all before your signature doesn't really matter. If your...

of Style violations in the table that it makes my head spin. There are hyphens that should be en dashes (in multiple columns), colored items without matching...

should qualify." It might be clearer if it said "debris disks" and put a hyphen between deuterium and fusing. "Dynamic characteristics" doesn't mention...