Talk:exteacher

RFV discussion: August 2022–February 2023
I created this with the use of GNV without realizing GNV may pick ex-teacher split across the line as "exteacher", which it very often seems to do. Are there any real attesting quotations? And if so, is this not rather a misspelling given how rare it possibly is? On the other hand, ex- is often used without a hyphen, so this would not be mis- per method of construction, would only be a rare spelling of ex-teacher.

Note that ex-teacher is now protected via WT:THUB. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:20, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * If you only created it based on scannos, you coulda just put a speedy tag on it. Maybe we can find 3 awful cites (probably due to reformatting issues in vanity presses) but it's very stupid (no offence to you) and I believe any use could be fairly clearly argued to be an error. Equinox ◑ 13:46, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Looking at the current translations at, it looks like it's not protected by WT:THUB. Czech and German  are just ex- + their respective words for "teacher" which looks to fall under "a closed compound that is a word-for-word translation of the English term: German Autoschlüssel does not qualify to support the English "car key"". If there are additional translations that don't fall under the limiting criteria at WT:THUB, then yes it'd be protected, but for now only WT:COALMINE seems to apply. (I won't be the one to make an RFD for it though) AG202 (talk) 20:21, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * ex-teacher is not a compound but rather a prefixed word, and so are exučitel and Exlehrer. Therefore, the current WT:THUB does not exclude exučitel and Exlehrer. Some may want to have them excluded, but this is not what the current WT:THUB does. THUB is overridable so if ex-teacher is sent to RFD, people may vote delete; I will vote keep. There is Category:English compound words, which to my surprise contains open compounds as well as closed compounds. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:49, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Cited at Citations:exteacher. Better revert the deletion campaign against ex-X words, and document them as single words, which they are, and stop complaining about prefixes being productive. See also . --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:39, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

RFV Passed Ioaxxere (talk) 20:03, 9 February 2023 (UTC)