Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Absolute color space

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 keep. --- Deville (Talk) 04:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fails WP:NOR

This article already went (successfully) through the Proposed deletion process--yes, it was deleted. Unfortunately, since links remained, and since no traces for the reasons of its deletion remained, it was re-created and subsequently edited by well-intended users. This approach intends to avoid the confusion.

This article was created and edited in good faith, but the very concept and content are, in my opinion, misguided. There is no such thing as an absolute color space--try finding a definition of this concept outside Wikipedia (and ignoring Wikipedia mirrors), and you will fail.

The reason is that the concept of an "absolute color space" doesn't reconcile at all with the well-established concepts of color space and color model. In essence, this article duplicates some of the concepts in both color space and color model, without really clarifying what a "non-absolute" color space would be. That's because there is no such thing as a non-absolute (relative?) color space. -- Gutza

• Delete. See deletion log. Shouldnt have been recreated. --Quiddity 21:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: The article seems to be trying to describe, with several errors, what the industry calls a device-independent color space. Gazpacho 03:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Are you sure? See [1] about halfway down. --Quiddity 04:43, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I have to say I really don't understand why this was nominated. I've worked with colour management for many years and the terms and definitions of "absolute colour space" and "relative colour space" are well-known in that field. A Google search brings up several non-Wikipedia references and definitions. It's certainly not original research. --Canley 06:38, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I am the author of the request for deletion, and I stand corrected: the article should be kept. I don't know whether I should de-list it from AfD myself. For anyone curious on what happened, I'll explain myself. I did do my research before proposing this for deletion the first time, and I really didn't find any credible source at that time; I obviously didn't do any more research for listing it on AfD afterwards. Quiddity, I think the article you listed was inspired by Wikipedia content, so it wouldn't count if that was the case (I found several wording similarities between Wikipedia content and that article.) Of course, I can't be certain it was. But Canley's vote and explanation made me search Google again--lo and behold, now I found several very credible sources mentioning absolute color spaces--including a patent application by Seiko [2]. I apologise for the trouble, and, as the person who proposed deletion in the first place, I explicitly authorize anyone who knows the procedure to de-list this article from AfD. --Gutza ^{T T+} 07:02, 1 September 2006 (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.