Talk:bumper-sticker

RFV discussion: July–August 2023
Hyphenated variant of "bumper sticker". No citations; not attested in other dictionaries (which have "bumper sticker"; Onelook's hyphenated entries link back here) nor in Google Books. Possibly only an attributive form, and if so, unlikely to deserve inclusion. &mdash; 90.194.225.248 06:01, 4 July 2023 (UTC)


 * On a general note, not about this word specifically: I've come to think it's silly that we banned hyphenated attributive forms. It means we have to have RfVs like this if there's any question about whether hyphenated-spellings can be attested outside attributive form, and it means that if two cites are non-attributive and a thousand cites are attributive, it's excluded, whereas if there are only three cites total but they all happen to be non-attributive, then the weird spelling gets included. - -sche (discuss) 08:34, 4 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I tend to agree, especially as we do have some entries that are merely "attributive for of X". We have entries for noun plurals and verb forms, so on that basis there would seem to be little reason to exclude attributive forms, where these can be shown to exist. (Note that in this case, however, the hyphenated form was given as the simple form, which is unattested.) &mdash; Paul G (talk) 05:19, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

RFV-failed or RFV-deleted or whatever This, that and the other (talk) 02:47, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete until the policy has been changed. — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:19, 4 July 2023 (UTC)