Talk:Hertzsprung–Russell diagram

RFM discussion: March–May 2014

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Hertzsprung–Russell diagram

This title uses an en-dash. I propose that it be moved to Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (with a hyphen) as few people have an en-dash key in their keyboard, if at all. The en-dash can be used in alternative displays. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 22:39, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Support; move the page back to [[Hertzsprung-Russell diagram]], where it was until it was moved in 2012 without, AFAICT, any discussion. Leave a redirect from the old title. Also move H–R diagram and any other pages that use an en-dash, except the page on the en-dash itself, [[–]]. Treat the en-dash the way we treat the fancy apostrophe vs the straight apostrophe, in other words. Wikipedians have fought many a flamewar over whether or not a particular entry should use a hyphen or an en-dash; we should (and AFAIK we did, until these pages was moved last year) use only the hyphen. - -sche (discuss) 22:59, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I didn’t realise there was a redirect. But still, it’s more appropriate to move it. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 23:10, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

These other pages also use an en dash or figure dash:

1. Cantor–Bendixson theorem, Heine–Borel theorem, Curry–Howard correspondence, Euler–Lagrange equation
2. Wade–Giles (even our other entries, e.g. Chin-sha, use "Wade-Giles") (moved)
3. Chechen–Ingush ASSR (doesn't fit with how other places are named, e.g. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) (moved)
4. San Diego–Tijuana (as above) (moved)
5. 68–95–99.7 rule (moved)
6. entity–relationship model (and plural) (moved)
7. entity–relationship diagram (and plural) (moved)
8. model–view–presenter (and plural) (moved)
9. f––ing (moved)

- -sche (discuss) 08:07, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Move all. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 10:28, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes. Move all. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:39, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Moved. Category:English terms spelled with – is now empty and could probably be deleted. - -sche (discuss) 04:44, 27 May 2014 (UTC)