Talk:Orange (colour)/Archive 1

message: Where did the name of the color come from? Do we  know?
--Duemellon 19:59, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You're looking for etymology, the study of words' origins; entomology is the study of insects. HTH, Meelar (talk) 20:01, 2004 Aug 10 (UTC)
Old French orenge entered Middle English as orange in the 13th century.  The Old French is believed to have come, by an indirect route, from Arabic naranj, which is from a Persian, Sanskrit or Hindi word.  Wild oranges originally came from northern India.  The initial n in naranj was probably lost by absorption into the indefinite article in one of the Romance languages such as Italian (where it was originally una narancia).  [OED] -- Heron 20:38, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  entomology? <not even sure if I spelled that right> 

message: By the traditional definition of a complementary color (see the information on painting) Orange is the complement of Blue. Unfortunately there is no wikipedia color wheel article as of right now, but there are some good websites on the traditional color wheel (try http://www.saumag.edu/art/studio/chalkboard/c-wheel.html and http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/TEACH/floral/color.htm ) where you can see what our complementary color article is talking about. -- Logotu 14:29, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: By all means let's have a traditional colour wheel, but for balance we should also have a modern colour wheel (like this) showing the more accurate colours now used in printing and computer graphics. -- Heron 14:53, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: I just created a color wheel article; although it is a stub. If you know of anything to put in it, feel free to update it. 66.245.70.139 23:02, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complementary color 

message: A while ago, someone created articles that are meant to be for the color that point to the fruit. (That is, they are links to Orange (fruit). This is ridiculous! Can we have any comments about moving this article to Orange?? Two important notes about this move are:
# The article of Orange (fruit) will not change, and
# The dis-ambiguation page can be named Orange (disambiguation)
Anything that can become more difficult this way?? Please explain. 66.245.84.194 01:01, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad News 

message: Maybe it's just me, but for the life of me I can't see a smidgen of yellow in "international orange". If anyone asks me the color of the Golden Gate Bridge I will place my hand on my heart and say "it's red, Your Honor!" Lee M 19:03, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  How come International Orange doesn't look orange? 

message: It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. violet/riga (t) 10:14, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Decision

message: I americanized all spellings. Come on guys, its common sense. Idduno about the rest of the world, but we americans do things democratically. By far, the number of wikipedians on here are american. Also, the majority of english speakers around the world speak correct American english. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! []
I just changed them back. While I personally use American spellings, there is no good way to decide on which style of spelling to use. Therefore, on Wikipedia, the following method is used: if the article is about a topic that is clearly American or clearly British (or clearly Australian, and so on), like Abraham Lincoln, that spelling is used. In the absence of such an affiliation, the style in which the first major contributor wrote is followed. Neither American nor British English is "correct"; both have evolved considerably from their ancient roots. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:20, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: User 132.198.250.179 - I hope you are not representative of your fellow Americans. If you are, it's no wonder that anti-Americanism is growing across the world. As knowledge-seeker pointed out, we should adopt the spelling preference of the first major contributor, but it's not always easy to identify such a contributor. Having looked through all the colour articles it seems to me that in addition to Orange, Green and Blue should use British English, or at least should using the 'u' spelling for colour (the first major contributor might have been NZ or something). I propose to change these, if only to achieve a degree of balance in the articles as a whole. Arcturus 16:22, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Idduno about the rest of the world...