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[DOC] Should these words use hyphens or spaces and other spelling questions

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Description

This is to ask for advice.

  • should "internet" be capitalized "Internet"

  • should it be "pickable" or "pickleable"?

  • should these words use an hyphen (or a space)? : autogenerates, autolinked, autonumbered, backend, backquote, dedent-ing, downtime, fallback, fallbacks, hardcoded, homepage, knowledgebase, lowlevel, markup, misdetect, misformatted, multibyte, multiline, nonbreaking, nonexisting, pagebreak, pagename, placeholder , plugin, postprocess, postprocessing, preprocesses, reindexed, reraised, standalone, subentry, testsetup, timezone, toolchain, typehint, walkthrough, website, whitespace.

This relates to #5865 and sums up all things I have not modified...

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Research direction

Start by reviewing issue #5865 and the current documentation occurrences of the listed terms; no file or test is named in this issue. Done means reaching decisions on capitalization, spelling, and hyphenation and recording the agreed conventions in the relevant documentation.

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Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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