Talk:ciaplatin

RFD discussion: October–November 2016
A misspelling entry by Semper. Policy: WT:CFI. does not even find the spelling, so I think it does not qualify as a "common misspelling". --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:03, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Speedy. Not even a misspelling, it's a typo. Renard Migrant (talk) 11:09, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I add these (from Visviva's lists) if there are more than 1,000 simple Google hits. There are about 1,500 hits for this one. What is our policy on misspellings? SemperBlotto (talk) 11:12, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I suspect that sometimes an "s" is misread as an "a" by a scanner. DonnanZ (talk) 11:23, 15 October 2016 (UTC)


 * A and S are also adjacent on a keyboard. Damningly, the document is full of the correct spelling cisplatin, showing that this was a one-off typo/scanno and not even somebody's personal idea of the correct spelling. Delete. Equinox ◑ 11:26, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * We do not have an agreed policy on when a misspelling is rare. My personal policy that applies only to my votes is based on relative frequency or frequency ratio, not absolute frequency. As for absolute frequency, gives me only 8 results. The data I use for acceptable frequency ratio are at User talk:Dan Polansky/2013. I consider the frequency ratio of 1000 to be good enough for common misspelling but do not have a clear idea of a threshold. Once Google Ngram Viewer does not find a spelling at all, it cannot be used to determine the relative frequency, and I usually consider the spelling to be a rare misspelling. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:25, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Some of those hits have both spellings, another is a scanno, so I think they can be discounted. I don't think scannos and typos count as misspellings, so yes, delete. DonnanZ (talk) 12:30, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Deleted. — SMUconlaw (talk) 10:32, 7 November 2016 (UTC)