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Requested move 25 October 2024

The request to rename this article to Witch hunt has been carried out.

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Witch-hunt → Witch hunt – The hyphen is a bit distracting and I see no good reason to include it. The corresponding disambiguation page doesn't have a hyphen, and neither do most of the topics listed there. An Ngram plot shows predominant usage without the hyphen. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:23, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Per nom. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:41, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom, my general sense, and unable to find counter examples (like google trends supports people searching for it with the spaced name and a scan through recent news stories show a vast majority using the spaced version). Skynxnex (talk) 19:15, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom, per Skynxnex, also per my general sense and my quick survey of many standard references.[1][2][3][4][5][6] (The presence of some outliers[7] isn't particularly compelling.) --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 23:09, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support even thought I'd like to read more about the guideline, which one is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cinemaandpolitics (talk • contribs) 11:52, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nominator and others. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 14:44, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support, found her. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:19, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Witch hunt grammatically matches Fox hunt (disambiguation). I looked through the talk page archive and didn't see any discussions on the spelling. The article was named and created in 2001 by an IP-address editor with only 22 edits that year before leaving Wikipedia or creating an account. 5Q5|^✉ 11:06, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]