Talk:HIV testing

HIV testing
As HIV test —  [Ric Laurent] — 22:07, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Added a citation, it even gets hyphenated clearly showing that in print it is used as a word.Gtroy 10:03, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as SoP.--Dmol 10:13, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * @Gtroy -
 * Hyphenation alone is no measure of whether a group of words should be considered as an integral term or set phrase. Some style guides advocate hyphenating any multi-word phrase that's being used in an adjectival sense (i.e. as a w:compound modifier), producing things like fast-walking man or leg-humping dog.  But note that this does not mean that fast walking and leg humping are suddenly treated as whole and integral terms -- they are still just multiple discrete words that occasionally happen to be used together. -- HTH, Eiríkr Útlendi | Tala við mig 18:07, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete SOP. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 21:16, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. It means nothing more than the testing of HIV. ---&gt; Tooironic 22:01, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as it is immediately obvious that this does not meet the requirements for inclusion Caladon 22:07, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, any test of this nature can be known by the name of the thing being tested for. --Mglovesfun (talk) 22:09, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * But this is a very famous kind of testing that one would expect to find in a dictionary.Gtroy 09:27, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * No it's not. There are no hits whatsoever on OneLook, which catalogues a large range of dictionaries. ---&gt; Tooironic 13:29, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. Equinox ◑ 20:43, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * CFI indicates that idiomatic or widespread use merit inclusion.Gtroy 05:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)


 * The only problem with that is that "HIV testing" isn't idiomatic... it's a medical test to see if someone has HIV. —  [Ric Laurent] — 12:14, 16 September 2011 (UTC)