Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of colors in various languages


 * 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   merge to Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate.  MBisanz  talk 04:19, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

List of colors in various languages

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This is listcruft. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Tchaliburton (talk) 18:54, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Delete: I really don't see the point. It's not something one looks up in an encyclop&aelig;dia. ubiquity (talk) 19:05, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  Everymorning   talk  19:17, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions.  Everymorning   talk  19:17, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Delete. This is not an encyclopedia article. —Swpbtalk 20:50, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete. A better fit would be Wiktionary for this listcruft. Probably not though. Unencyclopedic to the point of being a bad article idea. James1011R (talk, contribs) 01:26, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * No Delete If you have List of numbers in various languages, why do you want to delete it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania (talk • contribs) 05:21, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply I don't because that has been an established article, but it'd do better at Wiktionary. James1011R (talk, contribs) 05:57, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply Please, no! I made it. T_T — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2149:8420:C000:3197:4A71:39E6:20B6 (talk) 06:09, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply You didn't create that article, 2A02:(hexadecimal junk). Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania did. James1011R (talk, contribs) 06:22, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply Please, no! If you delete it, I'll be very sad! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania (talk • contribs) 09:09, 14 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep/merge The topic is quite notable — see Psychology of Language; Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution or Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism. The table makes a good appendix to our article color term and so should either merged there or just left as is. Andrew D. (talk) 18:04, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete: interesting perhaps, but Wikipedia is not a dictionary.– Gilliam (talk) 09:18, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 15:25, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge to color term as a reasonable compromise. Bearian (talk) 19:51, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP is not a universal translation dictionary. Carrite (talk) 22:20, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Not encyclopaedic content Nick-D (talk) 07:11, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * This list is nice and I may copy the source to my personal sandbox, but for now, Delete as Colorcruft. DodgerOfZion (talk) 07:48, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge and extend at color term or, perhaps better, Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate The value of doing so is probably not quite as apparent as it would be if the table would, as keeping or merging would allow, the table be expanded to include languages with fewer color terms. The colors listed are more or less those categorized by the Berlin/Kay hypothesis, and such a table, actually showing which languages lack some of the more nuanced color terms and which don't would be a signficant aid in understanding the best known theory of how color terms evolved. The current table, focusing as it does on quote fully-evolved unquote languages, doesn't really cut to the chase, but a table aimed at helping explain the Berlin/hypothesis would be a valid target for this search term, and would be a table which could evolve pretty directly from the material here. --j⚛e deckertalk 03:49, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
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