A fact from Serandite appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 July 2012 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that sérandite (pictured) was discovered in Guinea, described in a French journal, and the type material resides in Washington, D.C.? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/July.

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..."a contact metamorphosed terrigenous volcanogenic manganese deposit, which is to say..." Complete the sentence with a normal, well-prepared general reader clearly in mind, and the article will be rendered more acceptable in a general encyclopedia.-- Wetman ( talk) 00:53, 25 July 2012 (UTC). reply

Rejigged that sentence a bit. Vsmith ( talk) 02:42, 25 July 2012 (UTC) reply

The article says the type material is in D.C., but it doesn't define what that is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.46.28.244 ( talk) 01:09, 25 July 2012 (UTC) reply

You are at least the second person to bring this up recently (on this very article), so I am going to create an article which we can then wikilink. Chris857 ( talk) 01:49, 25 July 2012 (UTC) reply

And there we go. Chris857 ( talk) 03:03, 25 July 2012 (UTC) reply

I see that the article title uses the accent, but I have to question whether this is truly the most common form used in English as English tends to drop off accents. Rreagan007 ( talk) 02:53, 25 July 2012 (UTC) reply

On page 9 of this set of guidelines by the IMA, retention of diacritical marks is preferred. Chris857 ( talk) 03:07, 25 July 2012 (UTC) reply

Renamed (moved) per IMA. Vsmith ( talk) 03:16, 8 March 2016 (UTC) reply