Talk:Germany–Slovakia relations

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The result of the move request was: Not moved to the noun versions; no consensus for moving from the hyphenated to dashed forms. Will take care of the histmerges. Ucucha 01:32, 15 February 2010 (UTC)Reply


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  • I strongly object to all the moves above that involve bilateral relations pages moved from an adjective-adjective compound form to a noun-noun compound form. These cases have been controversial for years, and there is explicitly "no consensus" [1] about which version is preferable. Mass moves in this domain are disruptive; trying to steamroll all articles into one preferred naming scheme has not worked for years, and will not work. No opinion about the preference for a hyphen or an en-dash. Fut.Perf. 23:43, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
To add: the latest community discussion on this issue, which ended in "no consensus", was here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject International relations/Archive 3#RfC: Bilateral relations article name. Applicable policy is WP:COMMONNAME: "the most common English-language name [...] [or] a concise, recognizable and neutral description [...] we follow the usage of reliable sources." This demands determining the most common expression used in good English writing for each individual case. In the case of Germany/Slovakia, "German-Slovak relations" (no matter whether with hyphen or dash) has 673 google hits; "Germany-Sovakia relations" has zero (if you discount Wikipedia mirrors and incidental juxtaposition outside running text). Similar situations can be found for other country pairs, see further examples at the link above. For countries where simple adjectives exist, the noun-noun alternatives are so vanishingly rare in good English use as to be effectively ungrammatical. Fut.Perf. 12:53, 7 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
Move Please see WP:DASH. Whatever the name of the article, the use of a hyphen is inappropriate. —Justin (koavf)TCM19:52, 7 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
  1. WP:DASH prescribes neither form of dash for the adjectival compounds. It doesn't mention them at all.
  2. Stop using that dash red herring in order to push for the nominal forms. Fut.Perf. 21:32, 7 February 2010 (UTC)Reply


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