Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Why is the sky blue?


 * 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 Redirect to Diffuse sky radiation. This page seems to be the main page on the topic. (non-admin closure) -- Orduin  Discuss 01:58, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Why is the sky blue?

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Wikipedia is not a QA site. The term is already covered by Blue Sky. GZWDer (talk) 04:41, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. -- Eclipsed (talk) (email) 08:26, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. -- Eclipsed (talk) (email) 08:26, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete or redirect to Blue Sky. Doesn't meet guidelines for a dab. Boleyn (talk) 11:29, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Blue Sky or make an article about the question. I agree that WP is not a Q&A site.  I agree that there's not a compelling reason to keep what we have.  It's important that people entering one of the most popular questions in our search box get their answer.  That it is among the most popular questions suggests that we might want to cover it as a popular question. Here are a couple of places to start with that:    -- ke4roh (talk) 14:43, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect: this article was originally created as a redirect to Rayleigh scattering. It's a frequently asked question, so restoring the redirect seems like a useful outcome. However, Blue_Sky doesn't appear beneficial as a target. My preference is Diffuse sky radiation, the main article for Rayleigh scattering. Praemonitus (talk) 21:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Diffuse sky radiation which answers the question in an easily understood manner. StarryGrandma (talk) 17:04, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect is an easy answer. Where to is up to the closing admin. Bearian (talk) 14:50, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep. A redirect to Rayleigh scattering would be fine, but nobody can argue that the question isn't notable in its own right, and this isn't really a deletion discussion, but a discussion about what redirect target to use. --Sammy1339 (talk) 04:00, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Why%20is%20the%20sky%20blue%3F indicates there's value in keeping this, but it should not be a disambiguation page in and of itself because it's not the point of WP:D to serve as a crutch for violating WP:NOT. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 12:40, 13 August 2015 (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.