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Assistance Needed

Could you possibly proofread the article regarding Max Baker-Hytch? Your help would be appreciated. --153.170.47.139 (talk) 18:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done - it was pretty clean. Chris the speller ^yack 18:54, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

I noticed you were one of the contributors on the article page, so, you are notified on

Hermann Ehrhardt

I don't agree with your intermpretation of the MOS here. In context, Brigade is a proper name, just abbreviated to avoid redundancy. But since my interest is accuracy & completeness of content, I'm not going to get too excited about it one way or the other. GHStPaulMN (talk) 11:17, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

You don't have to interpret MOS:MILTERMS; it speaks clearly. It says that "Formal names of military units" are proper names and therefore capitalized. "Marinebrigade Ehrhardt" is a formal name; "the brigade" is not. Chris the speller ^yack 13:49, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Hyphens?

I know that you are good about punctuation. What hyphens should Small form-factor PC have? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 01:36, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

This is tricky, because "form factor" is a noun and takes no hyphen. It would be fine to say "I want a PC with a small form factor", or "I want an SFF PC". But if it is expanded to "a small form factor PC", "small form factor" is a compound modifier, so that would indicate that a hyphen should be used between "small" and "form factor". No hyphen after form, because multi-word nouns don't take hyphens, as in "a pre-World War II movie". So "a small-form factor PC" could be considered properly hyphenated, but it does not lead to smooth reading. Maybe this is why newspapers and industry publications generally do not use any hyphens in "a small form factor PC", and trying to stuff hyphens in there will probably lead to unhappiness. The current page name would be better with two hyphens and even better with none. As it is, it looks like it is about a form-factor PC (whatever the heck that is) that is small. The lede defines SFF, and it might be a good idea to use "SFF PC" exclusively in the rest of the article. Chris the speller ^yack 03:47, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Are you sure about "a pre-World War II movie"? I thought the rule was to use hyphens throughout a compound modifier, as opposed to between the adjective and noun, because lots of compound modifiers don't even have an adjective and a noun (ease-of-reading considerations, slowly-but-surely strategy, six-hectare-limit rule). The practicality of hyphenating the whole thing is obvious: that way it doesn't read like a movie about the second war over the pre-World. Or a factor relating to small forms. Bryan Henderson (giraffedata) (talk) 21:04, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I'm very sure. Search with DuckDuckGo (which pays attention to hyphens) for "pre-world-war-ii movie" and then "pre-world war ii movie" and see what comes up. None of your examples involve multi-word nouns. I can't think of any unhyphenated multi-word nouns that pick up a hyphen when an adjective is added in making a compound modifier. I admit that my example of "a pre-World War II movie" was not entirely appropriate, as "World War II" is a proper name, and you really can't jam hyphens into it. Back to the original question – "What hyphens should Small form-factor PC have?" – there is no slam-dunk right answer, and the closest I can come is no hyphens at all, as used in most sources I could find. Apparently, AI has not yet caught up with me; I asked Copilot (at bing.com/chat) about this case of hyphenation, and it said that "I bought a small-form-factor PC" was correctly hyphenated, and then said that "I bought a small form-factor PC" was correctly hyphenated! When I asked about the example with no hyphens, it preferred two hyphens. Chris the speller ^yack 01:42, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Belgian government formation

Hello Chris the speller, since you edited this recently, I was wondering how Arizonacoalitie should be spelled in English: "Arizona coalition" or Arizonacoalition as it is in the text now. Thank you so much for your time. Lotje (talk) 04:23, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I think most English-speaking folks would prefer "Arizona coalition". By the way, I fixed a typo in the article in an interlanguage link. Chris the speller ^yack 04:39, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much Chris :-) Lotje (talk) 04:41, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation

Hi Chris the speller :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 06:29, 14 July 2024 (UTC)