Talk:Davy's grey

Xanadu
First, I don't think this color is notable. Second the facts appear to be incorrect. The Xona.com Color List got it from a list of Resene Paint colors. See also. Although I have no sources to back it up it would seem more likely that the name came from the Xanadu cultivar of Philodendron. See this site for an example. Note where the Xanadu cultivar originates and the location of the Resene paint company. Finally even through the color looks similar to Davy's grey I don't think it belongs on this page. PaleAqua (talk) 11:01, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for this wonderful and useful research you have done! It is patently obvious that the colour Xanadu is named after a specific identifiable physical object, the leaves of the Xanadu plant. I was so happy to find that out! Obviously the vast majority of the colors on the Xona.com Color List do not deserve to have their own articles because they are purely arbitrary names that have no reference to the physical world. Only those colors on the list that are based on specific physical objects suchs as plants, flowers, minerals, etc. and that match the colors of these objects as identified from other sources should have their own articles. The color Xanadu meets that criterion. Therefore, I have removed the color Xanadu from this article and put it in its own article at Xanadu (colour) as well as adding it to the shades of grey color template. I used the British spelling colour since the plant the colour is named for grows in the Commonwealth nation of Australia.Keraunos (talk) 06:12, 20 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Only the most basic color names like red, yellow, green, blue, and magenta are abstract names. Most color names are based on physical objects.  Examples include orange (based on the orange), violet (based on the violet), Purple (originally from the secretion of a mollusk), Indigo, rose (based on the rose), and cerise (based on the cherry--cerise is the French word for cherry). Therefore it is perfectly normal and standard to base the name of a color on a physical object.  Keraunos (talk) 06:12, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge
As we recently saw at Articles for deletion/Thistle (color) and similar recent AfD's, many of these color stubs aren't notable enough to have their own articles, and should instead be redirected/merged into larger articles with lists of these colors. I propose merging this into Variations of gray.--Slon02 (talk) 21:19, 26 February 2012 (UTC)