Talk:candle-wick

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RFD discussion: March–April 2018

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As above. - -sche (discuss) 19:15, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

What's this supposed to mean? A wick of a candle, or the fabric candlewick? DonnanZ (talk) 19:33, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
From Citations:candle-wick, it seems to always be the wick of a candle, but perhaps the existence of candlewick "coalmines" it in. Sorry, I should've linked the citations pages of all of these. - -sche (discuss) 19:41, 19 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
I don't think it does. COALMINE allows one-word uncommon spellings to shoe in multi-word common spellings, but google books:"candle-wick" seems to be less common than google books:"candle wick" which is less common than google books:"candlewick". ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:00, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
I'm not keen either. I would prefer candle wick. DonnanZ (talk) 12:15, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply
Result: not created, citations moved to Citations:wick. - -sche (discuss) 18:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)Reply