Category talk:English hyphenized compound adjectives

RFD discussion: February–March 2022
Not much useful; the parent category contains most of the concerned entries anyway. All pages need to be recategorized to CAT:English compound adjectives if there is consensus for its deletion. ·~  dictátor · mundꟾ  18:13, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Certainly delete at this spelling: "hyphenized" should be "hyphenated". It's also a one-off: no other language has this, because it was created by hand. A quick spot-check turned up mostly cases where the category was added manually by the creator of the category, so it probably doesn't get added consistently to new entries. More importantly: spaced compounds in English regularly take hyphens when used attributively before the item they modify, and usage is all over the place as to whether hyphens are used or not for any given term. I question whether this category provides any reliable information at all. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:39, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete —Svārtava [t•u•r] 03:47, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ffffrr (talk) 04:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
 * It is easy enough to use regex searches to find a comprehensive list of these as intersection of categories: terms using hyphens, adjectives, and, if necessary, lemmas. This would accommodate some of the maintenance-type use by contributors. If we want the category anyway, because, eg, ordinary users have a need for it, we could use such a regex to manually add the category. In the absence of a plausible use case for such users, it's hard to see why we need this.


 * RFD-deleted. ·~   dictátor · mundꟾ  19:24, 10 March 2022 (UTC)