Talk:pharmocophagy

pharmocophagy
Rare misspelling/typo. Chignon – Пучок 10:09, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Why do we even have to go through this? Quoting from WT:DELETE: “Any of the following may be the basis for a speedy (i.e. immediate) deletion request: ... 2. Title misspelled: Move the article to the correct title.  If there is already an article at the correct title merge any useful material on there.” See also Votes/2019-03/Excluding typos and scannos.  --Lambiam 12:55, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Is there an admin who is willing to delete those summarily? ? Chignon – Пучок 13:44, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of these, at least, were created by so I am going to assume they were created intentionally. His attitude about misspellings is more permissive than mine, so I don't want to delete them out-of-hand without his having a chance to weigh in. I think the WT:DELETE page is at odds with current practice, as well as WT:CFI, with regards to how to handle misspellings, I am not sure that we have an agreed upon treatment. -  TheDaveRoss  16:20, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * What sets us apart from other dictionaries is "all words in all languages". If we are going to treat some types of word differently from others, then we should say so somewhere. I'll leave it to the community to decide. SemperBlotto (talk) 16:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The trouble is drawing a line between where words end and where other things begin. Sometimes I mistype my name as "Dvae" when I am signing an email. I don't think that we ought to include "Dvae" even if I do it often, and other do as well. I don't think including "Dvae" adds any value to the dictionary, I don't think anyone thinks that my name is "Dvae" nor, when they receive my emails, do they think that I think my name is "Dvae". It is a typographic error, not a word. Frequency of error does not factor into whether or not something is an error. In cases such as this intent is a factor, I don't mean to type "Dvae", I am just not very good at typing.
 * There is another class of misspellings in which a large number of people think that a word is spelled one way, when historically it has been spelled another. vs.  is a great example of this. The people who write  are writing the word as they intend to. Sometimes, eventually, these forms become accepted, sometimes they overtake their predecessor, sometimes they become the exclusively accepted form. This is the type of "misspelling" which we ought to include.
 * How to figure out which are which is a really hard task. - TheDaveRoss  16:38, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * In some cases yes, but the ones I've listed here are no-brainers. Some of them don't even seem to meet the attestation criterion. Chignon – Пучок 17:06, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * What is a word? It's any string of characters that SemperBlotto says is a word. You can see why people find this line of argumentation less than compelling. DTLHS (talk) 17:01, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, because it truly is rare. A Google search yielded only 36 results, and a HathiTrust full-text search yielded only 2 results. -Mike (talk) 21:20, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete as a rare misspelling per WT:CFI: finds not enough hits for GNV to show us the frequency ratio. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:24, 13 April 2019 (UTC)


 * RFD failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:31, 19 May 2019 (UTC)