Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Color and communication


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   redirect to Color psychology. Although some very good sources have been presented in this discussion, the concerns over original research, possible copyright violations, and redundancy with the Color psychology article are enough to dissuade me from closing this as "keep". I am closing this as "redirect" as a reasonable compromise between the "delete" and "merge" !votes, because the title would make a reasonable search term, and because it will negate the need to copy the references to Talk:Color psychology (as one "delete" !voter suggested). This close does not preclude having an article on the topic of "color and communication" in the future, but such an article would be best handled as a split of content from Color psychology. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 08:40, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Color and communication

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The page is wroten as an original research. Please note that 24 minutes before the creation of this page, another user (Jituparida), created the page How colour affects communication (see: Articles for deletion/How colour affects communication). Dэя-Бøяg 18:41, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: The article has been now tagged for speedy deletion per CSD A10. Personally, I agree. Sorry, I've not considered this criterion for CSD. --Dэя-Бøяg 18:53, 29 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete — This topic is not notable: no significant coverage or research by independent reliable sources. Rather, it's entirely WP:OR; the "sources" at bottom are crap: not particularly reliable, unscientific, and promotional/adverts. JFHJr (㊟) 19:55, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete — Pretty much all WP:OR. Eeekster (talk) 21:34, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete It's original research and the account that created it has a COI, so I've reported it to UAA. --v/r Electric Catfish (talk) 16:41, 30 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep Per DGG. --v/r Electric Catfish (talk) 17:46, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
 * keep, source, merge with the other article, and expand A valid topic, about which there are many references available. The manner of introduction into wp is unfortunate, but I think it represents a good faith attempt at an article.  DGG ( talk ) 17:14, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I did a quick check for books in WorldCat: Favre, Jean Paul, and André November. Color and, Und, Et Communication. Zürich: ABC Edition, 1979 has been published in several languages & is in hundreds of libraries. Knight, Carolyn, and Jessica Glaser. The Graphic Designer's Guide to Effective Visual Communication: Creating Hierarchies with Type, Image, and Color. Hove: RotoVision, 2000 is also in hundreds of libraries. Arnoldi, Per, and James Manley. "Colour Is Communication": Selected Projects for Foster+Partners 1996>2006. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2007 is a more specialized book on the work of a single firm, illustrating the appropriateness of the phrase. Also immediate relevant are Berger, Arthur Asa. Seeing Is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication. Mountain View, Calif: Mayfield Pub. Co, 1998.And there's Tufte, Edward R. Visual Design of the User Interface: Information Resolution, Interaction of Design Elements, Color for the User Interface, Typogragphy and Icons, Design Quality. Armonk, N.Y.: IBM, 1989.-- and his later famous works -- some of us may have heard of him. Additionally, ever book of graphic communication discusses this extensively  DGG ( talk ) 17:44, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 17:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 17:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Smerge to Color psychology. I'm also concerned that there appear to have been numerous copyright violations in the text - I've removed what I can find, but the fact that I and other editors have had to remove substantial passages because they repeated the sources verbatim makes me highly suspicious of the remaining content. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 08:59, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note SPI opened at Sockpuppet investigations/Jituparida. Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 09:18, 2 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete per User:Yunshui per redundant to Color psychologyCurb Chain (talk) 00:16, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep, source, merge with the other article, and expand as per User: DGG. MountWassen (talk) 07:37, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge into color psychology. The topic of color psychology is color and communication. As noted in the color psychology lead paragraph, color psychology is the study of color as a determinant of human behavior. Human behavior only is affected by color if color is communicated to the human. If the color is not communicated to the human, then the human is not affected by it. "Color and communication" is a fork of color psychology and covers the same topic - the psychology reaction of humans to the communication reception of color. Topics that would be different from this are (i) the communication transmission of color from a source item (e.g., how they need to use gold in stained glass to get wine red and violet to transmit outward) and (ii) communication travel of color (e.g. reflective light waves through the air and things that may affect such travel) between its transmission from a source item and its receiption by a target (e.g., a human). Since color and communication is a fork of color psychology, merge any reliably sourced information into color psychology and delete the rest of color and communication. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 13:07, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. If there were useful and well-sourced material in this article, I'd recommend a merge to Color psychology.  Unfortunately, this is not the case.  In this article, OR and statements from sources are inextricably interwoven; since the few references appear at the end of the article with no footnotes indicating which sources go with which assertions, it'd be impossible to separate out the sourced material and incorporate it into the color-psychology article.  Copy the references to Talk:Color psychology, then delete this article as unsalvageably tainted with OR.  Ammodramus (talk) 03:44, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete The subject is covered, better, at color psychology. --John Nagle (talk) 05:32, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.