Talk:Pink (disambiguation)

Cleanup

This dab page was marked for cleanup per MoS:DAB and I removed the following entries because (to my knowledge) they are not just known by the term "pink", making them unsuitable for a dab page:

• A pink slip, notification by one's employer that one has been fired
• "The pink dollar", a marketing phrase used to refer to the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender sector
• The proof of ownership or title to a vehicle, also colloquially known as a pink slip from the practice in California of printing the proof of ownership on pink paper.
• a color often associated with homosexuals
  • Pink triangle, a badge worn by homosexual victims of the Holocaust
• Pink-backed
• Pink-eared
• Pink-footed
• Pink-headed
• Pink-Pigmented

I also moved slang definitions to wiktionary:

• a comically derisive slang term for unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous middle classes, akin to babbitt or bourgeosie
• a slang term for the vulva, in human females

– sgeureka ^t•c 17:17, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

"Pinks"

There is a discussion at Talk:Pinks#Requested move 21 March 2020 about moving an article about a TV series and redirecting the plural here. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:17, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 6 April 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: WP:SNOW closure. (closed by non-admin page mover) feminist (talk) 05:09, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

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• Pink (disambiguation) → Pink
• Pink → Pink (colour)

– No clear primary topic over the flower that the colour is named after and the singer who gets more views (138,171 compared with only 15,318 for the colour) and the film that also gets more views (32,913)[1] but that's probably recentism. Although being the original meaning isn't determinate it seems reasonable to have a DAB page here given the usage of some of the other topics even though they may be pink. Also given the usage of both the singer and film it seems like readers would be better served by a DAB page today instead of loading the wrong page and having to make 2 clicks for the film and note that the singer is a level 5 vital article so it seems she also has some long-term significance to even though the colour (level 4 clearly has more). Although the article is tagged as using American English and this suggests we should use Pink (color), Talk:Grey is also tagged as using American English even though it uses a British title. Orange (colour) however uses both British English in text and title and this is consistent with that. Presumably RETAIN considers the title to be independent of the content and therefore since I am the one introducing the qualifier I get to choose the form of English it uses. A Google search for Pink don't return any results for the colour but Images are mainly for the colour, Books seems to be split. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:43, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose - WP:Solutions looking for a problem, The colour is very clearly the PRIMARYTOPIC here, Also Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Black and White are all colour-articles so I don't see any reason why this should be any different, (also oppose per Fyrael). –Davey2010^Talk 17:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)(Updated 20:13, 6 April 2020 (UTC))

  Not a solution in looking for a problem (and there are things we do that could be far more likely to cause problems like deleting things) and the views and Google support there being no primary topic. Also Orange similarly doesn't have a primary topic. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:10, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry but I disagree with your statement and we don't change titles per Google. –Davey2010^Talk 20:13, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. — Smuckola(talk) 19:14, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose: The color has far greater long-term significance than the singer and of course the film. It is a basic concept that anyone fluent in English knows and would fully expect to be at the base name. This story about everyone trying to reach the singer having to load the color page first is quite unfounded. This seems to me like an example of Apple. While Apple Inc. gets far more page views, the fruit is a globally recognized, everyday life topic that nobody is surprised to find at the base name. And as the proposer stated, name origin is not determinative and in this case of a nearly unheard of flower, it's a non-factor. -- Fyrael (talk) 18:51, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

The google search is also going to be pretty skewed right now, since the singer just had a major news story related to the pandemic. See the page view difference here. -- Fyrael (talk) 19:54, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Add the colour to the views[[2]] and you can see that the singer still averages around 5x the views. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:05, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm well aware of the views. Did you read the rest, including the parallel with Apple? -- Fyrael (talk) 02:43, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose for the reasons listed above. Mikus (talk) 18:57, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. Obviously the colour has longerm significance.--Ortizesp (talk) 20:06, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose per all the above. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 06:43, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. Don't eat the pink snow. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:53, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose Now, this is ridiculous. Pageviews don't mean anything when it comes to topics like this. The singer named herself after the color. Simple. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 17:35, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

No. One topic being named after another doesn't make it not primary, or the flower would be primary here. And number of page views, aka "usage", is one of the two most important aspects to consider according to WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, the other being long-term significance. So far it looks like people believe the long-term significance and other factors outweigh usage for this case (which I agree with), but we should not say page views are irrelevant. -- Fyrael (talk) 19:26, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

• Oppose This is nonsense, per all the above, especially Fyrael. Wikipedia:Solutions looking for a problem. — Smuckola(talk) 19:14, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.