Talk:Coloring book

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== Educational use ==

Since the 1980s, several publishers have produced educational coloring books intended for studying graduate-level topics such as anatomy and physiology, where color-coding of many detailed diagrams are used as a learning aid.

If we can find a source for that, please re-add it. —— Eagle 101  Need help? 02:52, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Try [ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679778497/schoolcatalog-20 ] Silas Snider (talk) 05:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * [ http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Coloring-Book-Wynn-Kapit/dp/0805350861/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294349161&sr=8-1 ]
 * [ http://www.amazon.com/Physiology-Coloring-Book-Wynn-Kapit/dp/0321036638/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1294349161&sr=8-4 ]
 * [ http://www.amazon.com/Saunders-Veterinary-Anatomy-Coloring-Book/dp/1437714390/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1294349161&sr=8-10 ] Dodger (talk) 21:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Political uses
Tried to add the fact that the FBI depicted BOTH white people and police as pigs in the Black Panther Coloring Book. The book and therefore proof of this fact can be seen at http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/COINTELPRO/coloring.html I've made the change twice but it has been reverted as vandalism. I'm going to make the change again because the FBI wanted to cause fear in the white population, they would have been far less effective to this end if only the police had been targetted in the book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.60.149 (talk) 14:10, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

See WP:Reliable Source. Thanks, Ono (talk) 14:13, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
i started to try to stop current vandalism, but i see that other (more experienced) editors know how to handle this better, so i will recuse myself. hope someone can stop it. I plan to add an article on a really high class coloring book line from the 70's, which i remember fondly (and have samples of to reference) the publisher was able to get the artist of one of his books into sfmoma, but only after the artist died, by creating a painting with the artists ashes (with family permission of course). weird but very artsy. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:17, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

For that matter, why is the Black Panther Coloring Book not deserving of its own Wikipedia page? This book has been mentioned in many of my college classes and the subject arises in any informed discussion of Cointelpro.

Too hot to handle? Has to be buried in the children's coloring book section?? Wikipedia is a valuabale resource, but I often wonder if it is not being run by higher ups who want to control sensitive information. This subject tends to valildate this point of view. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.164.240.37 (talk) 03:47, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Vanity edits
IPs 66.136.191.25 and 99.47.205.224 are clearly the company/owner of the company based on their edit history to this page and to the Really Big Coloring Books page, as well as the Wayne Bell page. Both IPs track to St. Louis, as well, where the owner and company both reside. The "Really Big Coloring Book" info needs to be strongly reviewed if not fully removed.

"Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, RBCB is a multi-national company with market leading positions in children's coloring & activity book development and distribution. Also providing fundraising opportunities with Really Big Coloring Books for over two decades and working with some of nation's largest benevolent and social organizations. The RBCB fundraising division has helped to raise millions of dollars for local groups and community needs around the globe.

Really Big Coloring Books, ® Inc. was founded by Wayne Bell in 1981. The company incorporated in 1988, registered their Trade Mark and began its current 30+ year business into fundraising and publishing. Bell studied agriculture at the Univ. of MO has natural speaking talents, is a visionary, an educated sales and marketing professional and has worked in the publishing industry since his teenage years." — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZekeDMS (talk • contribs) 22:27, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Adult coloring books merge
Thanks for merging the Adult coloring books article. I think that info still needs some work to bring it into neutral POV. It makes a lot of claims about the benefits of coloring that I don't think are well founded. I'll try to work on it this weekend if not earlier. - Tim D. Williamson yak-yak 02:58, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Adult coloring book history
The claim that "The first commercially successful adult coloring books were published in 2012 and 2013", while sourced, is problematic. The first round of coloring books aimed at adults launched in 1961, and both the first one (The Executive Coloring Book) and one following one (JFK Coloring Book) landed on the New York Times best seller list, the latter for 14 weeks. Now these are a different form of adult coloring books - rather than being therapeutic, detailed coloring books, they actually used the coloring book format to satirize - but unless we're actually defining "adult coloring books", we should steer away from that statement. Here is a New Republic article that should make a good base for material that folks might want to add, and here is a New York Times article from 1962 on the phenomenon. I am going to avoid making changes myself, as I have a strong WP:COI (I've published books reprinting those 1960s adult coloring books), but if there's any input I can give, let me know! --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:17, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Again, I am calling attention to this. Could someone please review my claim and adjust the article accordingly? --Nat Gertler (talk) 02:43, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

In the section "Adult coloring books", the sentence:
 * The first commercially successful adult coloring books were published in 2012 and 2013, and began increasing in popularity in 2015.

Should be prefaced and expanded to:
 * While coloring books for adults were popular in the early 1960s, those were satirical works rather than the therapeutic works that define the adult coloring book form today. The first commercially successful therapeutic adult coloring books were published in 2012 and 2013, and began increasing in popularity in 2015.

I have a conflict of interest as the publisher of Adult Coloring Books of the 1960s, Cold War Coloring, and the current edition of JFK Coloring Book. However, my request for a change has been on this page for alf a year without objection. --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:27, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅, sorry you had to wait so long! I only just saw this through the requested edits queue. Altamel (talk) 05:15, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

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