Talk:Sexuality in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)/Archive 1: Difference between revisions

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Bisexual vs. bi-sexual

You do have hetero- and homosexual preferences elsewhere, though. That's also the correct syntax in Dutch (dunno, about English). --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 15:56, 4 December 2007 (CST)

In the first sentence, "hetero-", "homo-" and "bi-" are all prefixes to the word "sexual", and thus should be written in that matter, since the hyphen is a "suspended hyphen". -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 16:19, 4 December 2007 (CST)

From my reading, the suspended hyphens rule only applies to words that would have the hyphen when used by themselves as well: post-war has a hyphen regardless of whether it's combined as pre- and post-war. The same is true for thirty-year mortgages and all other examples given at the link. Bisexual, homosexual and heterosexual are not hyphenated, though, so that's why I think it should be hetero-, homo- and bisexual. --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 12:32, 5 December 2007 (CST)

Now, technically, the hyphen should be consistent throughout, but I didn't have time to copyedit this since the wiki's been running slow and I didn't care to lose my work. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 16:19, 4 December 2007 (CST)

POV real template breakage

The "Real point of view" message is positioned underneath the first sentence in my browser (Firefox 2). --Catrope^{(Talk to me or e-mail me)} 15:56, 4 December 2007 (CST)

The template has been broken for a good while now. It's also showing at the place where it's added in the article, instead of a fixed position regardless of its place in the code (at least the last time I checked). I brought it up on its talk page once, but was told that it wasn't completed yet...which can't be entirely right. --Serenity 16:23, 4 December 2007 (CST)

Try a hard refresh. It should be to the right of the title header now. ;-) -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate - Sanctuary Wiki — New} 16:42, 4 December 2007 (CST)

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 == Bisexual vs. bi-sexual ==
 You do have <code>hetero- and homosexual preferences</code> elsewhere, though. That's also the correct syntax in Dutch (dunno, about English). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 15:56, 4 December 2007 (CST)
 : In the first sentence, "hetero-", "homo-" and "bi-" are all prefixes to the word "sexual", and thus should be written in that matter, since the hyphen is a "[http://www.editingandwritingservices.com/SuspendedHyphens.html suspended hyphen]". -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 16:19, 4 December 2007 (CST)
+::From my reading, the suspended hyphens rule only applies to words that would have the hyphen when used by themselves as well: <code>post-war</code> has a hyphen regardless of whether it's combined as <code>pre- and post-war</code>. The same is true for <code>thirty-year mortgages</code> and all other examples given at the link. <code>Bisexual</code>, <code>homosexual</code> and <code>heterosexual</code> are not hyphenated, though, so that's why I think it should be <code>hetero-, homo- and bisexual</code>. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 12:32, 5 December 2007 (CST)
 Now, technically, the hyphen should be consistent throughout, but I didn't have time to copyedit this since the wiki's been running slow and I didn't care to lose my work. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 16:19, 4 December 2007 (CST)