Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polar bear (color)

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The result was delete. Courcelles 23:24, 15 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Polar bear (color)[edit]

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Non-notable shade of off-white. bobrayner (talk) 20:52, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per nom Velella ^{Velella Talk} 22:08, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Kerauos pretends that by measuring a color patch in a book he gets a "sourced" color. Not so. Dicklyon (talk) 23:59, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment A few similar articles are at AfD:
bobrayner (talk) 08:01, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Non-notable name for a shade of colour. I suggest a brief mention should be made at the article White though. Sp33dyphil ^{"Ad astra"} 10:04, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No evidence that this term has ever had any significant use. Of the two references given, the one which is online does not even mention "Polar bear", and the other one is just an entry in a list of colour samples, which certainly does not establish notability. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:27, 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) 15:17, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. — frankie (talk) 18:39, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Another batch of articles is now at AfD:
Thanks for your time; bobrayner (talk) 18:07, 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 (if anything, colors are defined by a Pantone number). Moreover, some of these color articles have no content other than a weak dicdef (WP:NOTDIC). The articles on the primary colors could have a list of common names of some shades of that color. -- P 1 9 9 • TALK 13:12, 15 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.