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Split: "Orange" → "Orange (color)", August 2002: Used "colour" before the split.
Move: "Orange (color)" → "Orange (colour)", March 2004: Accepted.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange (color)", June 2005: Opposed.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange (color)", October 2005: Opposed.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange (color)", April 2006: Opposed.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange", April 2006: Opposed.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange_(color)", November 2007. US English spelling of "color": Opposed

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Colour vs. color in title

Shouldn’t “colour” be changed to “color” in the title to be consistent with other titles such as Violet (color) and Color (which used to be titled colour). Tinton5 (talk) 08:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

NO, because the article was originally created in British English, and by Wikipedia policy articles are supposed to remain in the variant in which they were started. --Orange Mike | Talk 11:35, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No, see WP:CONSISTENT. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CIELAB

Please correct: L*=67.3; C*=85.4; h_ab= 60.3° ZJ (talk) 15:01, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

History and Art; carnelians

Second sentence in the History and art section:"Orange carnelians were significantly used during the Indus Valley civilization which was, in turn, obtained by the people from Kutch, Gujarat." I don't know what the writer is trying to say here, exactly, but I'm fairly certain that the Indus Valley civilisation was not obtained from Gujarat. Maybe the badly mangled intent was to say "Orange carnelians, used notably in the Indus Valley civilization, were obtained from Kutch, Gujarat." If I were certain, I would have done that edit, but I leave it to someone more knowledgeable; at any rate some sort of fix is required. 2001:56A:F0E9:9B00:7D0B:BB63:D6EF:3F73 (talk) 03:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)JustSomeWikiReader[reply]

Consistency of tertiary colour wiki pages

the web colour for orange is a shade of orange, and not representitive of orange as it appears on the colour wheel. The wikipedia pages for other tertiary colors are not altered to be their web colour hex codes, so it is inconsistent to do so only with orange. Iţðript (talk) 22:54, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stop evading your block, for one thing. Remsense诉 22:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed

The section of "Confucianism" is disputed. As a native Chinese speaker，I'm very sure that the colour of orange does take its Chinese name from the orange fruit, not from saffron (see wiktionary or MCCD). Also, I doubt that the colour of orange had the meaning of transformation or anything in Confucianism, since it was never a basic colour in China until 20th century (see 赵晓驰 258 ff.). In my opinion, Eva Heller, who was a color psychologist but not a historian, must have read some wrong information about China thus written wrong statements in her book.——三猎 (talk) 08:10, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Paganism"

Please change the line saying "in Paganism" to "in Wicca", as per the source of that line. The claim that the colour orange has the same meaning across all of pagan religions, or that "paganism" is some cohesive whole, is quite ridiculous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.232.108.89 (talk) 20:27, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]