Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White carrot


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The result was withdrawn -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:44, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

White carrot

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White carrot is a disambiguation page including carrot, daikon, and parsnip. I see no evidence that either daikon or parsnips are commonly called "white carrot", though it is often said they look alike. DAB pages are supposed to be for alternate names, not similar things. The comment for parsnip mentions that in Arabic and Hebrew, its name means 'white carrot'. But this is not the Arabic or Hebrew WP; we are interested in the English name. Macrakis (talk) 21:39, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * It would appear that the daikon and parsnip aren't called "white carrot" in English, but the arracacha, not currently listed on the page, is apparently sometimes called just that. And there are proper carrots that are white, so this means we've got two probably good entries. If they're good enough, and we don't have a primary topic... – Uanfala (talk) 22:08, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * WITHDRAWN. Fair enough, though I'm not sure that that name (a translation from the Spanish) is actually much used in English. I've added it to the article, removed the deletion notice, and moved daikon and parsnip to See also. --Macrakis (talk) 22:20, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Carrot, where it already states: "One particular cultivar lacks the usual orange pigment due to carotene, owing its white colour to a recessive gene for tocopherol (vitamin E) ..." per WP:TWODABS. Then add a redirect hatnote to Arracacha. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:05, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect and hat per Clarityfiend. Good call, since the term in English will most likely suggest to readers a carrot that is white. BD2412  T 04:45, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment Agreed about the redirect, but it should probably go to the top of the Carrot article, since the article says that carrots in the Old English period were typically white, so not just the cultivar. --Macrakis (talk) 13:31, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Do not redirect. I've already suggested above that a dab page may be viable, but I would like to note now that redirecting is not. The white carrots mentioned here and there at Carrot are not some specific cultivar, these are just different kinds of carrots that so happen to be white. We should have redirects for specific terms, not for arbitrary adjective + noun combinations, we don't have corresponding redirects for white dogs or for brown cows. And I really don't like the idea of having a major article like Carrot adorned with hatnotes for extremely obscure uses (probably more obscure than I thought when writing my previous comment: there are only 7 hits on google for the search arracacha + "white carrot" so it's becoming suspicious that our article Arracacha should mention that as an alternative name). The two viable options that I see are 1) keeping the dab page (nothing wrong with an obscure page listing obscure uses), or deleting it altogether and letting readers use the search engine (for those looking for non-carrot-related plants described as "white carrots" in articles), or their common sense (those looking for whiteness in actual carrots could simply read the article at Carrot). – Uanfala (talk) 13:59, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * This Bioversity International PGR Newsletter article states "in English it is known as arracacha, white carrot, Peruvian carrot and Peruvian parsnip" and there's an agronomy article titled " In vitro multiplication of five cultivars of white carrot (Arracacia xanthorrhiza Bancroft) collected in Venezuela" published under the auspices(?) of the Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:17, 15 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep, bearing in mind the nom has withdrawn it anyway. It's not a disambiguation page, it's a set index article, and there's nothing structurally or substantively wrong with it that would justify deletion. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:51, 16 August 2020 (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.