Talk:Shades of brown

Requested move 1

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The result of the move request was: no consensus, so not moved. An identical (or at least massively overlapping) set of articles has been listed for discussion in at least 4 separate locations: Talk:Variations of brown, Talk:Variations of cyan, Talk:Variations of pink, Talk:Variations of gray. Listing the same articles in multiple locations is totally contary to WP:MULTI, and disrupts consensus formation by fragmenting discussion. I am therefore closing all 4 discussions as "no consensus", without prejudice to an immediate renomination of the same set in one location. Guidance on how to do so is available at Requested moves, and I will be happy to help doing that if asked on my talk page. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:50, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Variations of brown → Shades of brown – All relevant articles should be unified as per as per discussion.

Most follow currently the "Shades of …" naming scheme anyway, so change the remaining "Variations of …".


 * Shades of white: leave unchanged
 * Variations of gray: move to => Shades of gray
 * Shades of black: leave unchanged
 * Shades of red: leave unchanged
 * Shades of green: leave unchanged
 * Shades of blue: leave unchanged
 * Variations of cyan: move to => Shades of cyan
 * Variations of pink: move to => Shades of pink
 * Shades of violet: leave unchanged
 * Shades of yellow: leave unchanged
 * Shades of orange: leave unchanged
 * Variations of brown: move to => Shades of brown Tony Mach (talk) 11:42, 25 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Support all for consistency, and because "shades" more clearly relates to colors. bd2412  T 17:25, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support all per BD2412 for consistency, and as the appropriate natural phrase. Xoloz (talk) 18:26, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support all per my comments at Variations of pink. PaleAqua (talk) 10:49, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support But if consensus has already been achieved, why not just treat these as technical moves (and maybe the talk pages of these articles could have been notified of the discussion too). benmoore 20:49, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed, but just realized we might have an issue with gray. From checking history of the articles:
 * Brown: Variations of brown as an article was created afterwards. ( It was a redirect in 2011 to a category for shades of brown from 2008, but was changed into an article in 2013 )
 * Cyan: Shades and variations were both originally a redirect to a section of the cyan article. It was changed into an article in 2012 afterwards, and shades changed to redirect to it in 2013.
 * Gray: 2011 shades was moved because of the book ( and became a disambiguation page, it was originally created as a redirect on grayscale in 2004 ), variations of gray was created July 2011 before the shade / variations discussion Sept-Nov 2011. Renaming of that page should needs to consider the book.
 * And for completeness, Grey: Shades of grey was also originally a redirect to grayscale created in 2004, redirected to shadows of gray in 2006, and then to variations Sept 2011. Variations of grey to the gray page was created as a redirect in Sept 2011. The main gray/grey article is at grey. It was decided to use grey over gray for that article in [[Talk:Grey/Archive 1#Page move|this discussion].
 * Pink: Shades 2011 was a redirect to variations. Variations of pink was split out from the pink article in 2008 by me. PaleAqua (talk) 01:05, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment Note that the lead of most of these articles state tints and shades, and infact links to the artice Tints and shades too. IE, shouldn't these be Tints and shades of brown, etc?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 20:55, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Within that article it states so on grounds of conciseness I'd say not. benmoore 21:39, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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Requested move 2014-03-20

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The result of the move request was: Move All to 'Shades of X' since the consensus is for Option 1. EdJohnston (talk) 13:34, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

– Per the consensus at an RFC in November 2011 that all such pages should be called "shades of". This is a procedural nomination, as a followup to a previous discussion which I closed as "no consensus" on procedural grounds (the same set of pages was listed in 4 simultaneous discussions). I offered to make a new nomination, and having been [ asked on my talk page to do that], here it is. I have no preference, and remain neutral, and also offer an "option 2" to rename the pages to "Variations of". Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * OPTION 1
 * Variations of brown → Shades of brown
 * Variations of cyan → Shades of cyan
 * Variations of gray → Shades of gray
 * Variations of pink → Shades of pink


 * OPTION 2
 * Shades of black to Variations of black
 * Shades of blue to Variations of blue
 * Shades of green to Variations of green
 * Shades of orange to Variations of orange
 * Shades of red to Variations of red
 * Shades of violet to Variations of violet
 * Shades of white to Variations of white
 * Shades of yellow to Variations of yellow

Survey and discussion

 * Comment we should include variations in hue — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.175.135 (talk) 16:03, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Option 1 ( with possible exception for grey / gray ). Per previous shades vs variations discussions. While shade has a specific meaning it also has a general meaning the coverages the proposed usage, is associated with colors and reads more naturally than variations. For the case of gray/grey. We should probably consider grey per WP:COMMONALITY as both terms are used in the US English, while others only mostly use grey. PaleAqua (talk) 21:41, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment but "shade", "hue", "tone", "tint" are different meanings. You can read about it at tints and shades. Are these articles to be restricted to the technical definition of "shade" ? -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 06:07, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The word "shades" can refer to the painters' term shade, i.e colors produced by adding black, but it also has a wider meaning. E.g. one of the definitions from Collins English Dictionary "a colour that varies slightly from a standard colour due to a difference in hue, saturation, or luminosity: a darker shade of green.". I quoted this one before, but other dictionaries also have similar definitions, a bit lazy to do all the research yet again. So, no changing the name of the articles to "Shades of..." won't restrict them to just darker versions of the color. PaleAqua (talk) 06:35, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * HSV differences would be additive colour, but for paints it is subtractive colour... under additive mixing, there's no black that could be mixed in, so the subtractive "shade" has no meaning... (though we are reading this on colour monitors using additive colour...) -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 23:59, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose per conflict of interest between variations of brown and BrownHairedGirl.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 07:48, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Procedural remedy. Good point, Lugnuts. I have bought a barrel of colourless dye, and hope that it will solve the problem. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:58, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Option 1 per my comments in the previous discussions; "variations" is a term less associated with color. bd2412  T 16:30, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Option 1 wholeheartedly! But I can be a stickler for consistency. I know some of the "Shades of X" pages used to be "Variations of X" but went through a simple page move. When I hear variations, for some reason I think of music or literature, not color. I think shades is more appropriate. Liz  Read! Talk! 02:00, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Option 1 In colloquial usage, shades of a color mean varieties of a color and this is the term we use in our categories, e.g., Category:Shades of color. --Mark viking (talk) 03:31, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Option 2. I' m sorry but I don't entirely agree. I think shades and varieties are different things, and varieties is more accurate in many cases.  I don't think it is correct to speak of shades of white or shades of. Black, since both of those  would by definition be gray, or lighter or darker shades of other colors.  How about a compromise and call it "Shades and varieties of...?  That would satisfy everybody. SiefkinDR (talk) 14:58, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment i don't like it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.175.135 (talk) 20:09, 23 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Support Option 1 per the RfC, this terminology seems more natural, irrespective of any technical uses to the contrary. Xoloz (talk) 17:36, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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Possible removal from list
Several entries in List of colors: A–F contained a link to this page.

The entries are:
 * Brown (Crayola)
 * Brown-nose
 * Deer
 * Dirty brown
 * Electric brown

Entries in List of colors: G–M contained links to this page.

The entries are :


 * Iced tea
 * Metallic brown
 * Mocha
 * Mud

An entry in List of colors: N–Z contained a link to this page.

The entry is :


 * Philippine brown
 * Quincy
 * Royal brown
 * Temptress
 * Wenge

The article has an entry for Kobicha, which is parenthetically called Brown-nose, but I see nothing in the article that suggests that this color is referred to as Brown-nose.

Brown (Crayola) is problematic because although the word Crayola appears in the article it is in connection with a different color. The color coordinates (Hex triplet #AF593E) do not appear in the article.

I plan to delete these two from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors

If someone tracks down information on the two entries and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  20:46, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Possible removal from list
An entry in List of colors: A–F contained a link to this page.

The entry is (are):


 * Chocolate brown
 * Dark brown-tangelo

I don't see any evidence that this color is discussed in this article and plan to delete it from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors

N.B. This is not the same entry as Chocolate (traditional) which is discussed.

If someone decides that this color should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  21:06, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Commons files used on this page have been nominated for deletion
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Orphaned references in Shades of brown
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Shades of brown's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "css3-color": From Shades of yellow: W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords From Khaki:  From Fuchsia (color):  From Yellow:  <li>From Shades of green: </li> <li>From Aqua (color): </li> <li>From Shades of pink: </li> <li>From Grey: </li> <li>From Shades of blue: </li> <li>From Indigo: W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, SVG color keywords. W3C. (May 2003). Retrieved on 14 December 2007.</li> <li>From Shades of cyan: W3.org, W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords</li> <li>From Blue: </li> <li>From Shades of gray: </li> <li>From Spring green: </li> <li>From Shades of purple: </li> <li>From Lavender (color): [http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color 4.3. SVG color keywords—X11 colors including gray/grey variants:]. (May 2003). Retrieved on 2008-01-05.</li> <li>From Shades of azure: W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, SVG color keywords</li> <li>From Shades of red: W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords. W3C. (May 2003). Retrieved on 16 September 2008.</li> <li>From Maroon: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 04:17, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Should shadow be added here?
Hello, everyone. As you can see, I am VERY new here, sincere apologies for this. So, I noticed that shadow is listed on the Crayola colors page, but not on any other color page. I tried listing it on this page, but the edit didn't last very long. Again, I am very new to editing this site, so this is completely and entirely my fault. If you know which color page shadow should be added under, or if it was left out for a reason, let me know, if you even want to. Sorry for wasting your time with my unnecessary rant, but I hope the rest of your day turns out okay. 75.152.215.236 (talk) 03:44, 27 December 2022 (UTC)