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Cleanup needed

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I moved this article from:

California State Legislature, 1999-2000 Session

to:

California State Legislature, 1999–2000 session

The differences are:

  • an ndash rather than a hyphen for the range of years (the same convention applies to ranges of pages or other numbers);
  • a lower-case initial "s" in "session". Capital letters seem to be contagious: once you've written several words in a row with capitalized initial letters, it's hard to stop.

The other California legislative session pages also need to get moved, and all the links fixed. Michael Hardy (talk) 05:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not convinced that ndashes in article titles are a good idea, but I'll let this stand for now. --Stepheng3 (talk) 14:10, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
They are standard on Wikipedia in things like Eberlein–Šmulian theorem, appearing in hundreds—maybe thousands—of articles. This isn't a new proposal; it's well-establish long-standing Wikipedia usage. They also appear when something like "John Smith" is disambiguated from other "John Smith"s by putting in dates of birth and death. To use a hyphen instead is a clear violation of WP:MOS. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:42, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above is only from Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/List of mathematics articles (E), you'll find similar results for the other 25 letters of the alphabet. Michael Hardy (talk) 23:54, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]