Talk:aqcuire

RFD discussion: October 2016

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aqcuire

A 2012 misspelling entry by Romanophile. Policy: WT:CFI#Spellings. aqcuire,acquire at Google Ngram Viewer does not even find the spelling, so I think it does not qualify as a "common misspelling". --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:30, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

• Delete. DonnanZ (talk) 21:29, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Delete. Misspelling entries are becoming a problem IMO. Equinox ◑ 21:30, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

• Delete. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:20, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
• Delete DCDuring TALK 03:29, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
• Delete. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 09:12, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
• Delete. The bar for misspellings should be high, in my opinion, otherwise they will proliferate to a silly extent. Mihia (talk) 11:22, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
• Keep. I believe some people may actually mistakenly believe that this is the right spelling. Therefore, if it's attested, keep it. This is silly. Take it to RFV. If you guys have a problem with how misspellings are treated the same as regular words here, take it to BP so we don't have to go through discussions about misspellings time and time again. PseudoSkull (talk) 22:39, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

  Here the linked policy WT:CFI#Spellings again, from which I quote: "Rare misspellings should be excluded while common misspellings should be included." The only question is whether this is a rare misspelling or a common one. RFV is not the right process: rare attested misspellings get deleted per policy. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:48, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

  Dan is 100% right, it's just not true that 'misspellings are treated the same as regular words'. Renard Migrant (talk) 10:58, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Is anyone interested in changing misspelling policy to exclude things that are specifically typos, i.e. the result of a misplaced finger on a keyboard, such as ciaplatin (for cisplatin) which SemperBlotto created yesterday? Equinox ◑ 10:51, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

I'd like to think we don't need to, as a misspelling isn't a typo. But yes, essentially we need to clarify that a misspelling isn't the same as a typo. Nobody thinks the word cisplatin is spelled ciaplatin, it's just that 's' and 'a' are right next to each other on a qwerty keyboard. Cf Talk:derver. Renard Migrant (talk) 10:58, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

I am not but maybe I am a minority. One reason is that we have what I think is a decent frequency criterion that gives us a good enough quantitative control. As for "ciaplatin", it would be excluded as a rare misspelling per (ciaplatin*1000),cisplatin at Google Ngram Viewer: ciaplatin not found at all. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:59, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Deleted. — SMUconlaw (talk) 03:58, 18 October 2016 (UTC)