Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Watermelon (color)


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The result was delete. (Several merge suggestions, but no suggestion of where to merge.) —Doug Bell talk 22:46, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Watermelon (color)

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Contested prod. Fails WP:V. I don't think that everything that gets mentioned somewhere (even in a serious work) should get an article. This kind of info could easily be put into a table (list of colours, with their RGB codes, a sample colour box, and a reference). There is no need to have a separate article about this or most other non-standard colours (by standard colours I mean red, green, blue, ... and cyan, magenta, ...). It has been named and defined, but that's all there is to say about it. It hasn't been the subject of multiple non-trivial sources (per WP:V) (and the reference you give is apparently not such a source: it is a passing mention, a short definition, not an article, paper, historical event, ... which has the colour watermelon as its subject). (It doesn't fail WP:OR though, like I mistakenly thought in my ProD notice.) It can arguably be said to fail WP:NOT as well (as a dictionary definition), but WP:V is my main concern. Fram 08:10, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete or Merge - I agree that we don't need a separate article for every RGB color, so this article can be deleted or merged with a (new) article that lists all the colors in a table. Jayden54 10:10, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete we have Web colors but that wouldn't include things like this otherwise it will become huge. James086Talk 12:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge to a relevant list. This color is among standard definitions in art, but if we had an article every standardized color it would simply be too much (about 60 - 70.000 articles). Maybe someone wants to start a standard color wiki ? Alf photoman 14:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and maybe Transwiki to Wiktionary if it turns out to be a real color. Watermelons have two colors anyway. And a lot of candy markets watermelon as green, too. Axem Titanium 21:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Anyone who has ever eaten watermelon will know that there is a colour graduation from the centre to the rind. And if Watermelon happens to be some manufacturer's label for a colour (UK spelling) that does not make it notable.--Anthony.bradbury 23:44, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * comment: by the standard RGB scale there are over 16.5 million possible distinct colors, but a fraction of those are standardized, while I'd have an issue with an article on 120,120,130 cool grey, I'm not sure how I feel about a standardized common color. Wintermut3 06:24, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Anthony.bradbury. Danny Lilithborne 22:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete/merge per WP:WIKIPEDIAISNOTABOXOFCRAYOLACRAYONS. --- RockMFR 00:06, 10 December 2006 (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.