Talk:71-year-old

71-year-old
Is this SOP? It's the only entry like it that we have, AFAICT; the only entry in Category:English words suffixed with -year-old. - -sche (discuss) 19:59, 5 July 2016 (UTC) (I was unsure at first and hence posed this as a question, but I'm persuaded that deleting or redirecting is the appropriate course of action here. - -sche (discuss) 22:51, 11 July 2016 (UTC))
 * Didn't we have a run of these a few months ago? bd2412 T 01:53, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * And didn't we all redirect them someplace? Redirect to that place. Pur ple back pack 89   01:59, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * The discussion was about twelve-year-old, and there was no consensus for deletion – as you can see, the entry is still in existence. — Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 02:19, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I revert to my answer to the previous discussion. Keep those at round numbers that are attested. Redirect the rest to them. bd2412 T 03:40, 8 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete or redirect. Equinox ◑ 03:53, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete or Redirect. DCDuring TALK 10:58, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to . — SMUconlaw (talk) 14:50, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm with Smuconlaw here -- Delete or redirect to . ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 21:25, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm afraid, at least I see no justification to delete it assuming it had three citations. Ƿidsiþ 15:06, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the basic issue is that not all hyphens are the same: there's the hyphen that connects the parts of a compound, and there's the hyphen that's used as an orthographic convention to show that a phrase is being used attributively. It's not as obvious as Chinese, where you can have a whole sentence transformed into a subordinate clause modifying what follows by adding in between, but it's basically the same thing. There's no real limit but unwieldiness to what kind of verbiage can be shoehorned into such a clause: do we really want to have entries like oh-so-predictable, or sexy-as-hell? Just randomly picking up something from Google Books, I can see evidence on a single page for twenty-eight-foot(-long), thirty-four-foot(-long), thirty-six-foot(-long), forty-foot-long, forty-two-foot, fifty-five-foot, and then there's "thirty-five- to forty-five-footers"- however you want to split that up. Or how about 13-foot-four-inch-by-56-foot-six-inch? The existence of things like thirty-four-and-three-quarter-year-old further points to this construction being a phrase with hyphens and not a single word. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:00, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, even if this is kept, it seems clear that "-year-old" is not a suffix (as the entry currently asserts), any more than "-silly" is a suffix in other equally-silly constructions. - -sche (discuss) 22:51, 11 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I would keep all of these, and generate the ones that are missing (that meet CFI). SemperBlotto (talk) 15:09, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep . --Daniel Carrero (talk) 21:44, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Does this not feel a bit like the E1S1 (episode, series) that you were eventually convinced against? Equinox ◑ 21:48, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Delete, per you and Chuck Entz. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 00:14, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 23:31, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I would have said keep as I'd consider it as a single word not as three words simply connected by a hyphen. But I hate to spoil a clear consensus so put me down as no opinion. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:48, 13 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Abstain. In Talk:twelve-year-old, I invoked the translation target as a rationale. It might probably be invoked here as well, but I think we should stop somewhere for these -year-old entries, and 71 is a pretty high number. As for whether it is a single word, it is my guess that the putative principle that all CFI-attested space-free hyphenated strings are automatically included as idiomatic will not find consensus, and not even a plain-majority support; more on this by Chuck Entz above. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:46, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * "We should stop somewhere" sounds more like an oppose... Equinox ◑ 18:55, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Well yes, but I have a tender heart for entries :). And I have some sympathy for the include-all-attested-hyphenated-compounds position. My abstain should be sufficiently conducive to deletion or redirection. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:01, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirected to -year-old. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 17:22, 17 September 2016 (UTC)