Talk:norminal

RFV discussion: November 2020
I believe we need a formal and durably-archived attestation conveying the meaning of the term norminal. It appears the word was added by an IP editor about two weeks ago.

As a deeply involved editor on the English Wikipedia as part of the Spaceflight WikiProject, and a follower of spaceflight technology, I can offer that I have heard the word used for some time now, but that's mere original research and does not count for a set of durably-archived attestations that demonstrate the word meets the Wiktionary criteria for inclusion. The word was used once today on the NASA livecast where the SpaceX Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon Resilence capsule is carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station over the next 27 hours via a NASA paid-for transport contract, so I would expect we may see some media repetition of the word in the next day or so which will likely support the Nov 2020 use of the term. So probably will just need attestation of older uses from a few years ago. N2e (talk) 01:14, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Plenty of Google Book Hits for "norminal", but I would imagine that most if not all all are typos/scannos/blunders for "nominal". Intentional use will be hard to prove, I think. Mihia (talk) 20:53, 16 November 2020 (UTC)


 * As an aerospace engineer, I can confirm the word norminal is in common usage within the field. Retired U.S. Air Force colonel John Insprucker first used the term during a recorded SpaceX launch narration of the Intelsat 35e launch streamed live on Jul 5, 2017. The Webcast was captured on video, and the use of term occurred at timestamp 11:37. Since then, the term has become an injoke within the aerospace community. There is a reasonable discussion of the term on StackExchange. It has become commonplace to see hats and t-shirts with the word, as promulgated by Tim Dodd, and others. There is a "norminal" tag on Instagram. You will see the term in the comments from Military.com's article on a SpaceX launch on May 25, 2020.
 * Did it originate as a mistake for nominal or a blend of normal and nominal? DCDuring (talk) 17:28, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

RFV-failed. Although it is used within a subculture, it looks as if it is more an in-joke than an actual word. Kiwima (talk) 13:12, 14 April 2021 (UTC)