Template:Did you know nominations/Haint blue


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:43, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Nominator is on an indefinite Wikibreak and has not responded to comments despite several pings and a talk page message; this nomination is effectively stale. It's a shame this has to be marked as unsuccessful since the article was close to passing, but I guess that's how the cookie crumbles.

Haint blue

 * ... that the custom of painting porch ceilings haint blue in the American South stems from a Gullah tradition intended to ward off evil spirits? Source: Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System "Haint blue - A deep, rich sky blue color believed to repel haints", also supported by numerous other refs in the article
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tectarius coronatus

Moved to mainspace by Boomur (talk). Self-nominated at 01:37, 6 March 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg New enough and (barely) long enough. Earwig found no copyvio. Interesting hook, adequately sourced. QPQ done. However, the article (especially in its infobox) appears to imply that there was one specific shade of blue that could be called "haint blue", and gives it a specific encoding in the sRGB and HSV color spaces. The article explicitly tags this claim as being unsourced, and the article sources (particularly the use of plural in the title of reference 6) instead suggest that any light blue used for this purpose would have this name. This citation-needed tag needs to be resolved before this can appear in DYK. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:38, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg It has now been more than a month since my review, with no substantial edits to the article since the date of nomination, and no response to my review. The nominator is on a self-imposed wikibreak, hasn't edited since before the review, and has given no indication of when they might return. As such I'm marking this as a no, although if the situation changes before this is closed we can revisit the nomination (in that case, please ping me to make sure I see the change). —David Eppstein (talk) 20:53, 19 April 2018 (UTC)