Talk:Marie Byles

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.sbw.org.au/images/Documents/Marie%20Byles%20-%20A%20Spirited%20Life%20%28National%20Trust%29.pdf, which is copied without attribution from Julie Petersen. "Marie Byles: A Spirited Life". Reflections: The National Trust quarterly (The National Trust of Australia (NSW)) (Feb-Apr 2005): 17–20. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and according to fair use may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Nadiatalent (talk) 04:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Full-time (adjective)

User:Sminthopsis84 — I believe you are mistaken. Full-time in this context (continue with mountaineering full time) requires the hyphen, I believe - but I will do some more research on that. As you say, "It's not an adjective preceding a noun" — but adjectives don't have to precede nouns. In this context, at any rate, it's being used as an adverb, not an adjective, and I believe it still requires the hyphen. David Cannon (talk) 01:04, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

• I'm sorry, I've just looked up a grammar book and find that I'm the one with the mistaken ideas here. So I've just reverted myself. My apologies. David Cannon (talk) 01:06, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Well, this should really be settled by an Australian grammar reference, the like of which I don't have to hand. The Chicago Manual of Style would insist on spelling "full-time mountaineering" versus "mountaineering full time". However, I just asked a grammarian, who said that he doesn't favour the Chicago Manual's view, so this is clearly a matter of personal preference. So if we agree, that is excellent, even unexpected. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 01:58, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

The Macquarie Dictionary entry is at "full-time" with fulltime as an alternative. Hack (talk) 02:32, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

I see. Is the Macquarie Dictionary an Australian source? David Cannon (talk) 09:17, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes, the Macquarie Dictionary is Australian, but it is a dictionary, whereas what is needed here is a style manual, such as Modern Australian Usage. The way I would analyze this example is that in "full-time mountaineering", "mountaineering" is a noun, and "full-time" is a compound attributive adjective; in "mountaineering full time", "mountaineering" is a gerund, and "full time" is adverbial. Unlike the Chicago Manual, wiktionary does accept hyphenation of the adverbial form. Wiktionary also considers "fulltime" to be a word. I'd therefore accept any of those three forms here (though would personally only use "mountaineering full time"). Sminthopsis84 (talk) 11:52, 23 October 2015 (UTC)