Category talk:Young adult fiction

Hyphenation
Proposed rename:
 * Category:Young adult fiction to Category:Young-adult fiction – C2.A/C2.D: per Young-adult fiction. -- Black Falcon (talk) 07:12, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Category:Young adult novels to Category:Young-adult novels
 * Category:Young adult novel series to Category:Young-adult novel series
 * Category:Young adult novels by series to Category:Young-adult novels by series
 * Category:American young adult novels to Category:American young-adult novels
 * Category:Australian young adult novels to Category:Australian young-adult novels
 * Category:British young adult novels to Category:British young-adult novels
 * Category:Canadian young adult novels to Category:Canadian young-adult novels
 * Category:Irish young adult novels to Category:Irish young-adult novels
 * Category:Young adult fantasy novels to Category:Young-adult fantasy novels
 * Category:Young adult novels by writer to Category:Young-adult novels by writer
 * Category:Young adult novel stubs‎ to Category:Young-adult novel stubs‎
 * Category:1970s young adult novel stubs‎ to Category:1970s young-adult novel stubs‎
 * Category:1980s young adult novel stubs‎ to Category:1980s young-adult novel stubs‎
 * Category:1990s young adult novel stubs‎ to Category:1990s young-adult novel stubs‎
 * Category:2000s young adult novel stubs‎ to Category:2000s young-adult novel stubs‎
 * Category:2010s young adult novel stubs‎ to Category:2010s young-adult novel stubs‎
 * Are these also mandated by WP:HYPHEN? If not, I would prefer to move the article to an unhyphenated form, as its cited sources do not appear to use the hyphen. The article was hyphenated in 2007 by one editor who had a bee in his bonnet about this, and has not edited for five years. See Talk:Young-adult_fiction. Note that in the following section, the same editor was criticised for self-promotion and original research. – Fayenatic  L ondon 15:29, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, the hyphenation is in line with WP:HYPHEN, since "young-adult" is a compound modifier that modifies "fiction". Hyphenation rules out the alternative interpretation of "adult fiction that is young (i.e., recently created)". Both forms (hyphenated and unhyphenated) are widely used in outside sources (e.g., The Atlantic, Slate). -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:02, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd have to agree with Fayenatic London on this one. The term is seen in both the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms, absolutely, but my experience is that the unhyphenated form is far more common — so while there may be some room for debate about which form we should use, Wikipedia's naming policies and conventions certainly don't mandate the hyphen. Not appropriate for speedy, accordingly, and should go to a full CFD discussion instead because it might be preferable to move the article back to the unhyphenated form instead of renaming the categories to match it. Bearcat (talk) 16:54, 28 November 2014 (UTC)