Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of RLM paint designations

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS. dbenbenn | talk 23:54, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

List of RLM paint designations
Incomplete list of colors for some brand of paint. Give me a break. Radiant! 12:38, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Almost copyvio. Unencyclopedic. Copycruft and pastecruft. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:57, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep The colors used by the Luftwaffe during WWII are inherently encyclopedic and useful for anyone studying WWII aircraft. Too bad there isn't a color table to go with it. RLM "brand of paint"!! The Nazi Air Ministry was many things, but... DialUp 17:24, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... I'm wavering, but not close to ready to change my vote. Can the problems of its being incomplete and apparently being directly copied from a website be solved? Note that the website from which the article was taken is much better because it defines each color with a U. S. Federal Standard (whatever that is) equivalent and gives a visual sample. I'm inclined to say that's a great link and a dandy external reference for the relevant article. It's obviously a labor-of-love personal website, maybe the author can be presuaded to release the page under GFDL? Dpbsmith (talk) 20:03, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I still think it would be an encyclopedic article, but color samples would make it more visually appealing. Federal Standard 595 is the U.S. government standard for paint color and has color chips of all listed paints. It's a work of the government so is probably not subject to copyright, so neither would using them if they indeed relate to RLM colors. I go to air shows quite often so I was thinking of all those people with an interest in vintage aircraft, but thanks to BM for mentioning that model builders might also like an encyclopedia they could consult. DialUp 21:07, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The Nazi Air Ministry is encyclopedic, its color list is not in my opinion. HyperZonktalk 17:38, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too low a level of detail.   Wikipedia isn't an aircraft model painting guide.  --BM 19:14, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no potential to become encyclopedic. Will change vote if verifiable evidence is provided to suggest that any RLM colors were as widely notable as British racing green.  Barno 20:09, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and expand, useful valid list. Megan1967 23:29, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - obviously encyclopedic - David Gerard 23:32, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too much detail. In addition, sourced only to a web site. Wile E. Heresiarch 03:41, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Could be expanded and become useful &mdash; Linnwood 07:09, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * No encyclopedic content. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 16:42, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or Keep -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:58, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * For those who voted to keep this article: what exactly is its content? "The Ministry of Air in Nazi Germany used the following colors: silver, grey, yellow, white, ..." How exactly could this become encyclopedic? - Mike Rosoft 16:57, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep has potential. It could be very encyclopedic if it mentioned some examples of which military units used which colors. Kappa 22:06, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, useful. JamesBurns 10:46, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Raw data.  Wikipedia is not a general knowledge base. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 13:17, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

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