Talk:Amaranth (color)

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In whose culture?

In science fiction art, humans, aliens, or robots or androids who are immortal may be depicted as wearing amaranth-colored robes.

Um, since when? And by whom? Can we get a reference on this please?

Corgi (talk) 18:37, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Circular definition?

The color amaranth is similar to printer's magenta (pigment magenta) (but redder). It is the color of the flower of those amaranth plants that have amaranth red colored flowers.

[amaranth is the color of amaranth-colored flowers]

Mathyeti (talk) 17:20, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article is used as support for List of colors: A–F

I'm working on an initiative to determine whether entries in List of colors: A–F are adequately supported. In some cases, list articles contain information and include the reference in the list article itself. In other cases, such as in this case, the list article includes a link to another article within Wikipedia and the presumption is that the entry in that article will be reliably sourced.

The colors in that list that are linked to this article include:

Amaranth
Amaranth deep purple
Amaranth pink
Amaranth purple
Amaranth red

Amaranth itself does not have a proper color coordinates template, it simply has a box with some information, which isn't sourced. The text uses Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 Which is presumably a reliable source but given the date it's highly unlikely that it contains color coordinates. Note in particular that the footnote explains that the source doesn't support the current color but a different color. That seems to be something that needs to be sorted out.

Amaranth purple uses the 1930 book as a reference for the color coordinates table which almost certainly doesn't support any of the values. The text includes two references one an additional reference to this 1930 book and the other to a dead link. In my opinion, this means that the color coordinates for this color are not adequately supported.

Amaranth pink has two sources attached to the text won the 1930 book and the other a dead link. The book may support the existence of the name but it doesn't support the color coordinates. The color coordinates table includes three references one to the 1930 book and two links to conversion sites which convert coordinates for one color space to another. Although one of those sites Appears to support amaranth pink as a name and the RGB codes, there are two things to note. The search by name box on the right side of the page is a copy of the Wikipedia list. The oldest version of this page in the Internet archive goes back to late 2016. The entry and the Wikipedia list was added years before (2012), so it is virtually certain that the "reference" was generated from Wikipedia information not the source of the information.

Amaranth purple has a text section contains a dead link and the 1930 book while the color coordinates template contains only the book, so there is no published reference for the color coordinates values in the article at this time.

Amaranth red appears to be a synonym for amaranth, Although that is not supported by any reference and the article contains no color coordinates template.

My conclusion is that not a single one of these colors is adequately supported. I'll leave it to other editors to work on this page of someone feels it needs improvement but I plan to remove the entries from the list is not been adequately supported.--S Philbrick (Talk) 15:40, 1 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]