Talk:dolemite

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dolemite

Rare misspelling of dolomite. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:21, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Clearly a "word". Why is this an RfD issue rather than an RfV issue? In any case, a Google Books search for "dolemite" AND calcium brings up well over a hundred results; for example:

2013, Richard C. Ropp, Encyclopedia of the Alkaline Earth Compounds, page 364:

• Marble is a rock resulting from the metamorphism of sedimentary rocks such as limestone or dolemite rocks.

2011, John P Rafferty, Britannica Educational Publishing, Geology: Landforms, Minerals, and Rocks: Minerals page 330:

• ...a review of recent scientific progress and remaining scientific and economic problems concerning the mineral dolemite.

1924, Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, The American city, Volume 31, page 34:

• These include limestone (calcium carbonate), dolemite (calcium and magnesium carbonate), sandstone and shales, as well as beds of chlorides of sodium (common salt), calcium and magnesium, and beds of calcium sulfate (gypsum).

Whether it is a rare alternative spelling or a misspelling, it is something we would have. Since the original word, dolomite, is "[f]rom French dolomite, named after the French mineralogist and engineer Déodat de Dolomieu", it follows that dolemite is indeed a misspelling. In that case, it's worth having to correct the errant. Cheers! bd2412 T 02:21, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

• RFD kept for no consensus for deletion. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:32, 28 September 2013 (UTC) Reopening. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:41, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
• Delete as too rare a misspelling, thus per nom. dolomite,dolemite at Google Ngram Viewer suggests that the frequency ratio of the two forms is too unfavorable for "dolemite", which is more than 8000 times less common than the other form. I've used User_talk:Dan_Polansky#What_is_a_misspelling to calibrate the ratio threshold, which I leave unspecified. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:41, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
  • I would suggest that this situation differs from the normal misspelling due to the half-million Google hits that "dolemite" gets, largely due to the film, Dolemite, which could lead people astray. bd2412 T 19:14, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 16:10, 4 December 2013 (UTC)