Talk:Nuclear–cytoplasmic ratio

Requested move 19 January 2024

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The result of the move request was: Moved to Nuclear–cytoplasmic ratio. (closed by non-admin page mover) Adumbrativus (talk) 09:16, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

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NC ratio → Nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio – Alternative, unrestricted title. JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 05:19, 16 January 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). – robertsky (talk) 15:12, 19 January 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 07:15, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

• • @JohnCWiesenthal: En dash or slash should be used instead of hyphen per MOS:ENBETWEEN. The existing redirect can be retargeted without special permissions. PleaseStand (talk) 20:13, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

    @PleaseStand: I'd agree that ENBETWEEN would call for a dash in "nucleus–cytoplasm ratio", since that means "nucleus-to-cytoplasm ratio". But this would imply "nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio". SilverLocust 💬 23:08, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

    @SilverLocust ENBETWEEN does say though that "The components may be nouns, adjectives, verbs, or any other independent part of speech." And I'm not sure that "nuclear-to-cytoplasmic [volume] ratio" is any less valid of a construction than, say, "observed-to-expected [events] ratio" or "wide-to-narrow [bar width] ratio". PleaseStand (talk) 02:42, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

    Fair enough. SilverLocust 💬 02:55, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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• Support as it appears to be by far the common name. And yes, style it with en dash. Dicklyon (talk) 23:33, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
• Support with EN dash, as the WP:NATURAL disambiguation of the move would be an improvement regardless of what experts expect the common name to be. Similarly, I would also support a move to Nucleus-to-cytoplasm ratio. ― Synpath 03:30, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• support per Synpath--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:40, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.