Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sky-blue-pink (color)


 * 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   delete. The delete votes are more substantial and are backed by policy \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 00:10, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Sky-blue-pink (color)

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moved from MfD Bduke    (Discussion)  01:51, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * (moved from MfD) Delete. No independent references or relevance to any other article worth a mention.  Don't see any point in redirecting to Uncle Wiggily or Howard Roger Garis, and cannot find any more relevant article.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:21, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * If, as per below, there is a history of literary interest, then I suggest you work some mention of it into other existing articles, perhaps the ones I mention? --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:24, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. As you see I have moved this here from MfD. The external link describes a wider use of this term than the book. I can certainly recall its wide use in England as a kid in the 1940s and 1950s. I expect this use will be documented elsewhere, but just the external link on its own gives some indication of notability. -- Bduke   (Discussion)  01:57, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * (comments from the Contributor) Thanks for the vote of lingustic confidence, Bduke -- however weak the keep, I'll take it! :)
 * Believe it or not, the reason behind this article is a lengthy discussion about colorways and color origins happening on a forum over at Ravelry, a vast social networking website for knitters. Here is a link directly to the forum discussion in question, although you would need a login to read it. The discussion began started about 8 hours ago and has generated 35 posts and 589 readers. Pipesdreams (talk) 03:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Here are some relevant remarks from the discussion:
 * START: I plan to make a scarf for a friend’s October birthday. The problem? Her favorite color is “sky blue pink”.
 * My mom’s favorite color is sky blue pink, but i always imagine it’s got more white mixed in.
 * Sky Blue Pink. Funny, that is one my my favs as well!
 * It was always my Dad’s fav colour - though only as a joke to confuse us as kids :)
 * This was also my mother’s favorite color. I always wondered where it came from. Does anyone know?
 * Apparently (according to world wide words) it comes from a Children’s story about an old rabbit called Uncle Wiggily by an american author called Howard R Garis but it has gone into common use to describe a colour you can’t quite put your finger on or for people who can’t make up their mind as to their favourite colour :)
 * FINISH: One of my favorite colors too!! Must admit… I thought it was just a made up thing from our family!
 * There are also several External Links that I omitted as being too commercial and potentially short-lived, such as Sky-blue-pink as a yarn colorway produced by PageWood Farms
 * Thanks again! Pipesdreams (talk) 03:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * My apologies for not being able to format properly - I typically do not participate in Wikipedia in this manner. I believe the term "sky-blue pink" should be kept in the database as it is an important cultural reference. It is not, however, a color. It is an expression, one that stems from a child's story about an imaginary color and has become a term for referencing fantasy colors, or as a sort of American and British "je ne sois quoi" response. There are designers and artisans out there in the art and fashion community using "sky blue pink" as a color, but since it was originally made-up, everyone's idea of what that color is actually, is different. I think this serves a purpose just as the made-up words from things like Alice and Wonderland and Mary Poppins have entered the lexicon. Just take a look at Google - articles about "sky-blue pink", Nike shoes in the colorway "sky-blue pink, and several different artisans as well as a history of the term at World Wide Words. I vote: keep. --Lizabeth83
 * This is not a vote. And if you are thinking about "words that have [&hellip;] entered the lexicon" and example occurrences of a word in use, you are in the wrong place.  This is the encyclopaedia, not the dictionary. Encyclopaedia articles are about the concepts/places/events/people/things that titles denote, and (as should be evident) there's no actual colour denoted here.  The dictionary (i.e. lexicon) where such lexicography is done is where you should go for words; and it is over there.  It has had "sky-blue pink" (which is ripe for expansion with etymology and dated quotations) since before your discussion forum thread started. Uncle G (talk) 10:49, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTDICT. The relevant parts can be merged into the relevant articles SmokeyJoe identified, and the page made into a redirect, if the phrase is indeed, as claimed, somewhat popular or of some literary interest. As it stands, there's no indication that this satisfies WP:N. Tim Song (talk) 05:09, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - we tend not to have articles on phrases. There are certainly many phrases and expressions more notable than this one, but we have chosen not to write about them. They belong in Wiktionary, where this expression already has an entry - .  SilkTork  *YES! 23:57, 31 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - unlikely to have any reliable sources to source this article.--Unionhawk Talk E-mail 00:03, 1 August 2009 (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.