Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Color image

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The result was redirect to Digital image. Can be merged from history, but only if sourced in the process (the content is currently unsourced). Sandstein 21:05, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Color image[edit]

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Unsourced and ambiguous title. Color image also refers to color photographs. I do not think this title is at all encyclopedic, and since Wikipedia is not a dumping ground for information, I'd suggest this be deleted or redirected to Color photography. Aasim (talk) 19:14, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:03, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Digital image. It is a type of digital image, but the article is old and very outdated. It is only about color images on a computer screen, so wouldn't fit anywhere else. Dream Focus 23:38, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe rename or merge, but not sure to what.
It was orginally meant to be about "digital color image" -- as opposed to, for instance, grayscale images. Namely, an array of small integers or tuples (pixels) that encode color information for a 2D set of points, usually an orthogonal plane grid. So maybe it could be renamed digital color image or color digital image.
I don't think that merging into color photography is a good idea, since that name is even more ambigous (it comprises chemical color photography as well as digital), but also not broad enough (it does not cover digital video, which overlaps a lot with color still images).
There is a lot more that could be said about color digital images specifically, that are not pertinent to other kinds of digital images, such as grayscale images, bitmaps, height maps, heat maps, etc. Such specific topics would include color spaces, bits per pixel needed for visually accurate rendition of color, color gamuts, storage schemes, gamma-law encoding, color image compression and file encodings, colorizing grayscale images, false color images, ... Thus, to be sincere, my vote would be to leave it there. If someone one day cares to add that information, that stub would save them quite a bit of time and work; if not, what harm does it do?
I disagree that it it is only about "color images on a computer screen". Color images are created in many ways, such as in digital cameras, scanners, frame grabbers for analog video; are stored and transmitted in many ways; and are used in many ways besides displaying on a screen, such as printing, computer vision and technical image analysis, image processing, texturing 3D models, ...
By the way, that article was one of my first contributions to Wikipedia, but I totally forgot about it. In its defense, let me note that it has been sitting there for 17 years, and none of the 10-12 editors who edited it seem to have been bothered by its existence...
All the best,--Jorge Stolfi (talk) 01:01, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
2,895 views in the past 90 days. 104,010 since 2015, that as far back as can be searched. So someone is using this. Are there any textbooks that list this information? Dream Focus 01:27, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Besides the lack of sources I don't understand the point of the article and what it adds to the content at Digital image and Image file format. It contains a rather random assortment of facts and is not comprehensive or focused. Caleb Stanford (talk) 05:24, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Digital image, as per Dream Focus. MrsSnoozyTurtle 22:46, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Digital image. WikiLinuz🍁(talk) 06:45, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.