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::: 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)
::: See also [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1983 RFC1983 Internet Users' Glossary] (no hyphenation). [[User:IveGoneAway|IveGoneAway]] ([[User talk:IveGoneAway|talk]]) 22:12, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
::::It sounds like [[User:IveGoneAway|you]] would support reverting {{u|Hl}}'s addition of the hyphen. I would too. Anyone else? ~[[User:Kvng|Kvng]] ([[User talk:Kvng|talk]]) 18:27, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
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