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: All of them ought to be hyphenated, really. [[User:Hl|—Hugh]] ([[User talk:Hl|talk]]) 22:10, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
::Well (playing devil's advocate here) [[Local area network]] is much more frequent than [[Local-area network]] in sources and elsewhere in the encyclopedia. It may be a stretch but you can also think of this as an ''area network'' that is ''local'' in which case ''local area'' is not a [[compound modifier]]. ~[[User:Kvng|Kvng]] ([[User talk:Kvng|talk]]) 12:58, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
::: I don't think there is a devil to advocate here -- I should think the WP style is to have actual common usage trump grammatical precision. Not that I can say that I have paid attention to this, but I can not recall the area networks ever being hyphenated in use. But the point of [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wide-area_network&oldid=882861593 Hl's 11 February 2019 edit] was to hyphenate ''all'' of the area network terms. This, in theory would mean not only hunting down and hyphenating all of the area network articles, but every usage anywhere in WP. Because the real life convention is to not hyphenate,<ref>{{cite book |author = Jack G. Ganssle & Michael Barr|title = Embedded Systems Dictionary|isbn = 978-1-57820-120-4|year = 2003 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zePGx82d_fwC }}</ref> the instances of unhyphenated area networks is somewhat large in WP. I do not think it is helpful to hyphenate them. To Kvng's list I would add [[CAN bus|Controller Area Network]] and [[Local Interconnect Network]]. [[User:IveGoneAway|IveGoneAway]] ([[User talk:IveGoneAway|talk]]) 20:00, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
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