Talk:Olive (colour)

Is this page necessary

How do we know that this color's name is the same as the DWU? I mean to say, is this color actually mentioned by name in the cited sources? If not, then shouldn't this page be deleted? Shambala108 ☎ 23:10, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure. There is ample precedent that for "common items", we don't necessarily need a DWU source for the name, so long as they clearly appear on-screen. For example, if the Doctor is seen wearing a hat, we don't need to have a specific source for the word "hat". By the same token, I don't think we need a source for the word green to be able to write about the colour. (Although we'd need a {{Conjecture}} tag.)

That being said, the precedent also goes that we don't deal in specifics. Anyone can see that a given object is a tank, and that the Eighth Doctor's coat is green — but specific types of tank are not things that the average viewer is expected to know, so we don't push the conjecture that far. Is "olive" a sufficiently well-known colour? That is the question.

I agree these pages are a bit dubious — but I don't think (if you'll forgive the colour pun) that the situation is black-and-white. It's probably something we should have a thread about, once we have Forums again. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 23:15, 13 March 2021 (UTC)