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Color articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			3	2			5
B	7	16	12	9			44
C	7	29	54	76		1	167
Start		37	105	170			312
Stub	1	3	22	155		1	182
List		3	21	12			36
Category					105		105
Template					137		137
NA		6	14	48	75		143
Assessed	15	94	231	472	317	2	1,131
Total	15	94	231	472	317	2	1,131
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 3,462			Ω = 4.88

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color article input requests

Looking for some input for the following color articles:

• Talk:Color_theory#This_article_needs_direction
• Talk:Standard_illuminant#Merge_proposal

Curran919 (talk) 14:05, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

A request for efforts on Wikisource..

Anyone able to help get: s:Index:NBS Circular 553.djvu Transcribed? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 00:55, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

To be honest I don't really see the point. Anyone curious can just look at the scan. It can even be OCR'd. If you wanted to make this useful for modern times, you could try to put all of the color names into a database of some kind, but Wikisource isn't capable of hosting something like that. –jacobolus (t) 01:31, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Ideally, the transcription should ultimately also be into Wikidata, assuming someone is able to convert the color references into RGB triplets or xyY values. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

List of flags containing the color purple listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for List of flags containing the color purple to be moved to Purple in heraldry. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 19:22, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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Sorting color shades

The organization of colors on Shades of red, Shades of blue, etc. is seemingly random. Would it be appropriate to sort these all alphabetically? This came up because I was considering where to merge the content of Ruby (color) and Sapphire (color). Reconrabbit 18:05, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

These articles are mostly an unencyclopedic mishmash of unsourced trivia. The infoboxes, with their coordinates made up by one or another random Wikipedian or found online somewhere, take up an absurd amount of space. To try to fix them though would be a huge amount of work, especially finding better semi-consistent sources, getting accurate measurements of these various named colors and then properly explaining where the names came from and what range of colors they apply to. Ideally there'd probably be some classification by color (e.g. ISCC–NBS designation). –jacobolus (t) 18:38, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

I will probably go for that then. If we are to go by ISCC-NBS designation, should "pinks" even be on the "shades of red" page? I am tempted to just blank the more arbitrary of these listings, such as all the Crayola colors that don't have a single non-primary source. (Edit: I've noticed that at least on Shades of blue, the colors claim to be sorted by highest value in HSV terms, but this is obviously not true as evidenced by the first three entries in the list.) Reconrabbit 18:53, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Whether pink fits with red or not is a bit arbitrary. My impression is that the word "pink" was originally just a shorthand for light red. For better or worse, in recent years it is also often used for much more purplish colors. –jacobolus (t) 19:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

I've already started removing Crayola pencil and crayon colors that have duplicated entries at List of Crayola crayon colors or List of Crayola colored pencil colors. I believe this to be in line with the discussion in Summer 2022 here. If unwarranted feel free to revert me. Reconrabbit 19:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:List of flags containing the color purple#Requested move 14 June 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of flags containing the color purple#Requested move 14 June 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 19:16, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Color templates in dark mode

I've taken to implementing dark mode support, so that the color displays correctly in dark mode. For example, Template:Infobox color on Black now displays black in the color swatch beneath the title. You will need to double-check that I performed this correctly; some colors seem to be completely different in mw-no-invert on my system.

Red
#FF0000

Green
#00FF00

Blue
#0000FF

Black
#000000

White
#FFFFFF

–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:23, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

What should be done for the {{Text color templates see also}} series and {{Blue pencil}}? The former series is used for emphasis in various places, and in Template:Map of American English. Several talk pages use the latter, but Nordenfelt v Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co Ltd is the only article that transcludes it. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:22, 5 August 2024 (UTC)