Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iceberg (color)

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The result was delete. Courcelles 22:57, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Iceberg (color)[edit]

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Non-notable shade of blue (not white). RGB values apparently taken from a single moodily-lit photo of an iceberg. bobrayner (talk) 07:51, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment A few similar articles are at AfD:
bobrayner (talk) 07:59, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Another non-notable name for a shade of colour. Sp33dyphil ^{"Ad astra"} 10:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I have attempted to search for any reliable source coverage for this commercial term, and have not had any luck. This fails WP:GNG. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 15:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 21:31, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Another batch of articles is now at AfD:
Thanks for your time; bobrayner (talk) 18:06, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all. Color names are chosen arbitrarily and different at each paint manufacturer. There is no standard on what each color should be named. Moreover, some of these color articles have no content other than a weak dicdef (WP:NOTDIC). As for the X11 colors, the listing at X11 color names is more than enough and really all you can write about it. The articles on the primary colors could have a list of common names of some shades of that color. What's next, an article for each Pantone code? -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 13:22, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
'The X11 names are in all cases suitable as being from the most widely used color directory, at least the most widely used free one. I would be in favor of listing all the Pantone colors also, if we can find a way free of their intellectual property restrictions.This would not violate nOT DIRECTORY, for we are not compiling of directory of every possible color name, or any color name every used anywhere, but only the name used in standard sources, and are therefore discriminating. The guiding principle is NOT PAPER. DGG ( talk ) 19:01, 16 September 2011 (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.