Proposal 1: Change the colon (:) after language name to slash (/).
Proposal 2: Remove the dash before the last part of the rhyme page name: e.g. "-eɪm" to "eɪm".
Note: An example rhyme page name on 1 September 2014 looked like this: Rhymes:English:-eɪm.
Note: There are 11269 rhyme pages, located somewhere within Category:Rhymes by language. In particular, there are 4757 English rhyme pages, 1540 Icelandic rhyme pages, and 1378 Czech rhyme pages.
Support Having a slash (/) after the language name is a natural extension of our appendix names like "Appendix:Frankish/kawa". — Keφr07:55, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support, though quite weakly, on the grounds that it makes some string processing simpler. The hyphen carries zero entropy; or in plain English, everyone already knows that we are dealing with suffixes, indicating that explicitly is unnecessary. If we ever find ourselves making pages in rhymes namespace which are not rhymes lists, I might change my mind. — Keφr07:55, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You mean that Lua code does not need to drop the leading "-"? That is very straightforward for Lua code to do. Is that the reason why we should not prioritize human ease of recognition of what is presented on the user interface? --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:28, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. When you look for rhymes, you know what you mean. And it sometimes happens that the rhyme is the complete word pronunciation (e.g. it), which makes the - meaningless. Lmaltier (talk) 16:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I think of e.g. "-eɪm" as the regular expression ".*eɪm", where .* also matches an empty string (or think if "*eɪm" if you are used to file name patterns). --Dan Polansky (talk) 22:32, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This is not the usual meaning of - for suffixes. Therefore, this might be slightly misleading. But the important point is that it's not needed, it would not help anybody. Lmaltier (talk) 22:38, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You are right that the whole word matching the ending is something of an oddity, one which does not happen with morphological suffixes AFAIK. But again, it does not feel like a real problem to me. To your other point: hyphen does help me to immediately recognize what is going on, and I am missing it when I don't see it. So it is not accurate to say it would not help anybody, when it in fact helps at least me. In fact, hyphen is still used in the mainspace: check e.g. name where it says "Rhymes: -eɪm". (It says so now; I cannot rule out a non-consensual change to follow.) The person who originally designed the rhyme pages with hyphen must have felt and perceived the same way as I do. --Dan Polansky (talk) 22:48, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The rhyme pages are organized by what is an auditory analogue of a suffix. Since suffixes are usually denoted with a leading dash (e.g. -ness), using dash in rhyme page names seems natural. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:58, 23 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Abstain We aren't talking about suffixes. The /eɪm/ of name isn't a suffix. It's a syllable rhyme. But I still don't really care whether that's indicated by a leading hyphen or not. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:27, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, hyphen is written, so is IPA. So what? Both the hyphen and IPA are written to indicate what is auditory. The hyphen before the IPA suggests that the IPA is not a complete IPA (of a complete word) but rather IPA missing something at the left. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:17, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Proposal 1 passes (6-2-2 = 75%), proposal 2 fails (2-5-2 = 29%, noting also that one of the support votes was "quite weak"). In my interpretation, this means that Rhymes pages should be named along the lines of Rhymes:English/-eɪm. This, that and the other (talk) 05:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]