Category talk:English terms spelled with ‐

RFDO discussion: July 2015–September 2016
I don't quite see the point in categorizing all hyphenated terms just because they contain (gasp) a hyphen. -- Liliana • 11:42, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't see the point either, bearing in mind that some words can be spelt with or without a hyphen; e,g. ' or well deserved. I would suggest deletion'''. Donnanz (talk) 16:19, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Probably the intent was to get around the limitations of the search engine. Even in Cirrus Search it is not obvious to me how one can simply construct a regular expression that would find only entries that had certain special characters (. ? + * | { } [ ] " \ # @ & < >  ~) in the title. Of all of those we can be most sure that we have entries with "-" in the title. Can anyone proved a regular expression that would work? It the search were limited, even if only by the word "English", but better by incategory:"English lemmas", the reqex search need not bring the servers to their knees.
 * Unless and until such a regular expression is available and documented somewhere we are likely to be able to find when it is needed, Keep. DCDuring TALK 17:09, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Why was this depopulated? DCDuring TALK 17:28, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Good old fashioned pointlessness from Daniel Carrero who cared more about amusing himself than doing something that would be useful for other users. Kill. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:12, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * But this would have had a point had it been populated. Do you know how to use CirrusSearch to find entries that contain specific characters, including special characters without killing the servers? This kind of category can facilitate searches using regular expressions if no other category is available that reasonably limits the list of entries that the regular expressions are applied to. DCDuring TALK 18:56, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note that we could easily put the entries back in the category now with the standardChars field for English in Module:languages/data2, or any other character you want. DTLHS (talk) 04:39, 1 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Have a category that serves this function: Maybe not necessarily with this wording; perhaps Category:Hyphenated English terms instead. Pur ple back pack 89  04:31, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The search engine "insource:/[regex]/" function allows one to find subsets of this category. For example, I could find all English lemmas using "-". It is necessary to restrict the search to subsets using existing indexes such as for category membership, template use, prefix, use of a given word, etc. This search capability makes these categories much less valuable. I don't know how long our search has had this "insource" capability. Does this have any value now? DCDuring TALK  12:21, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Kept as no consensus to delete. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 21:10, 19 September 2016 (UTC)