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Requested move 18 February 2019 edit
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: Withdrawn: per Netoholic's suggestion and IP's reasoning. I was unaware of the difference between the noun and adjective forms. (non-admin closure) SITH (talk) 00:27, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
– Per WP:CONSISTENCY with the main topic which is at African Americans. The space seems to be more common in literature (Ngrams) and according to Google, used approximately one million more times than the dash. I have intentionally not nominated:
...so as not to start a WP:OFFICIALNAME v.s. WP:COMMONNAME debate; they'll just have to be looked at individually. I've also excluded redirects which use the dash, I will run a Quarry query and make ones with a space if necessary. Many thanks, SITH (talk) 23:09, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose per MOS:HYPHEN as, in most of the pages under discussion, African-American is being used as a prepositive attributive compound modifier. And despite what is indicated in the nomination, this usage is consistent with the article "African Americans", which also uses hyphens when when the term is used as a prepositive compound modifier. In fact, the first paragraph of the article explicitly states,
As a compound adjective, the term is usually hyphenated as African-American.[1][2]"
- Regarding the ngram, that really doesn't show us anything if no distinction is being drawn between when the term is and isn't being used as a prepositive attributive compound modifier. Moreover, even if this were the more common usage (and this could be demonstrated), one has to be careful not to fall into the common-style fallacy. 142.160.89.97 (talk) 00:05, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- Oppose per 142.160.89.97. Fundamental misunderstanding of noun vs adjective forms. Proposer should withdraw or close early to prevent this massive list of pages from spamming the RM page. -- Netoholic @ 00:09, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
References
- ^ "African American". American Heritage Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ "The size and regional distribution of the black population". Lewis Mumford Center. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 1, 2007.
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
They word of God is my life edit
@Frank 1729 102.215.255.223 (talk) 13:30, 25 December 2023 (UTC)