RFV discussion: September 2014–January 2015

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Is this capitalization with "Z" and no hyphen attested? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:25, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Failed. Keφr 14:51, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is this capitalization with "C" and no hyphen attested? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:26, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

The entry currently has one quotation, from this source, but as can be seen from the Google Books preview, the source also uses the spelling "anti-Chinese", which suggests that their use of "antiChinese" may be a typo. —Mr. Granger (talkcontribs) 18:22, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Failed, sole citation placed at Citations:antiChinese. Keφr 14:51, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is this attested, with no hyphen and so capitalized? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:34, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Cited, Are you happy now? Zeggazo (talk) 06:35, 2 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Three Usenet citations were given by Pass a Method. Google Groups does not seem to have those in its index, while NNSeek can find only the last one: [1]. There are no identifiers and I have no means of verifying whether those citations are authentic. Therefore I declare the term has failed attestation. Keφr 15:12, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is this attested, with no hyphen and so capitalized? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:34, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Failed. Keφr 14:51, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is this attested, with no hyphen and so capitalized? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:34, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Failed. Keφr 14:51, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is this attested, with no hyphen and so capitalized? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:34, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Failed. Keφr 14:51, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is this attested, with no hyphen and so capitalized? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:34, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Try to search "antiRussian" (with quotation marks) --88.251.197.246 13:12, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
When you search for "antiRussian" (with quotation marks), you get hits that appear to be antiRussian, but when you click on them and examine them, they are actually anti-Russian (all of the ones that I checked on). In American English, the rule for the prefix anti- is that it normally connects without a hyphen (antitank), but if the word is capitalized, it must be hyphenated: anti-Russian. In British English, as far as I know, all cases are hyphenated (anti-tank). It is possible that some of the Google Book hits are truly antiRussian, but I did not find one, and if I did, I would consider it misspelled. —Stephen (Talk) 13:23, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
The other time American English uses a hyphen after anti- is when the following word starts with an i, e.g. anti-intellectual. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:27, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
What about this one? It looks really weird - antieverything - anti-everything is more palatable! Donnanz (talk) 14:08, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
I think antieverything looks fine, but in British English, it would be anti-everything. BrE always keeps the hyphen after anti-. —Stephen (Talk) 16:00, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
OK, so be it. Returning to the matter in hand, anti-Russian is correct as well as preferable, and the same applies to the the other anti entries listed here for rfv. Donnanz (talk) 17:14, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
BrE doesn't always keep the hyphen, though it usually does. "Preferable" is of course subjective. Equinox 20:17, 28 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Yes, we usually prefer to retain the hyphen for clarity, especially in AuntieVeryThing. Dbfirs 20:36, 2 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Failed. Keφr 14:51, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

Is this attested, with no hyphen and so capitalized? --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:34, 27 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

I have cited it but without the capitalisation, so it should be moved to antizionistic Zeggazo (talk) 06:45, 2 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Failed. Keφr 14:51, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

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