Talk:British racing green

message: Green was evidently Britain's chosen or assigned racing color from early on without any particular shade identified. In 1902, Selwyn Francis Edge driving a green Napier automobile won Gordon Bennett Cup in the Paris-Innsbruk race. They evidently called that color Napier Green. The sample in the table is from the car's color at Napier 30 HP and is the closest hexidecimal I could come up with. It would be a nice addition to this page if someone could find out when and how green was assigned to British cars and the transitions to the official British Racing Green color. DialUp 21:24, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Napier Green

message: I found this sample of Deep Brunswick Green at British Standard 381c Colours. It was listed as 381c 227 and as hex #183828. DialUp 22:39, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Deep Brunswick Green

message: This page was listed on votes for deletion.  Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/British racing green for the results of the debate. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:55, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Votes for deletion results 

message: According to Top Gear, the  Gordon Bennett Cup race was switched from England to Ireland because Parliament brought in a speed limit of 12mph.  Not sure how true that is.  violet/riga (t) 20:24, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed limit? 

message: While the term "British Racing Green" comes from motor racing, there has never been a prescribed shade. British racing cars have been painted every shade of green. The standard shade has acquired currency outside motor sport. - Ian Dalziel 06:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Eventually got round to removing the speculation. (though something had signed me off without my noticing) -- Ian Dalziel 11:54, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Mike Lawrence claimed in his Grand Prix Cars, 1945-65 that any old shade of green can be used to represent GB, before going on to have a pop at Scottish teams co-opting Austria's colours.  I read somewhere – I think in some Guinness–published tome – that Edge was give green for the 1902 Gordon Bennett race as it was considered a lucky colour on the Continent; this would offset any bad luck that might settle on his car due to it carrying the number 13. Long before Aston Martin was even a twinkle in Lionel Martin's eye. Mr Larrington (talk) 17:44, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standard colour 

message: I'm sorry,
It is not a big deal within the scope of this page, but cyan is definitely not green. 
I decided to add a talk instead of editing because seems to be the root of the problem is not here.
But where?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Senki.xyz (talk • contribs) 03:54, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyan 

message: An entry in List of colors: N–Z contained a link to this page.
The entry is :
* Napier green
I don't see any evidence that this color is discussed in this article (although I do see a relevant comment on this page from 2006) and plan to delete it from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors#New_approach_to_review_of_entries
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) 12:45, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible removal from list 

message: The article has a lot of detail about different shades of green, when they appeared, and which became known as "British Racing Green", but it does not say when the name was first used. For all I can tell it might have been twenty years after the colour was first painted on a racing car. Does anybody know? 85.255.232.153 (talk) 19:50, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: 1903. That's pretty clear. The precise shade is much more variable. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:08, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did the name appear? 

message: I have tagged the section International rise to prominence as an uncited block and due to the bogus reference created by  on 8 March 2020 - just a load of wikilinks enclosed by ref tags, viz:Team Gunston as a privateer team became the first Formula One team to paint their cars in the livery of their sponsors when they entered a private Brabham at the 1968 South African Grand Prix..I split the block into two paragraphs.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 01:24, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not a 'bogus reference', just a mis-formatted footnote. It does need a citation, true, but presenting it with nefarious intent is hardly fair. Assume good faith Rocknrollmancer, you really shouldn't need reminding of that basic tenet of Wikipedia. Pyrope 01:32, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thought that would get your attention (I did trawl through the history and I have been following your talk page). Officious imperative, again, be a bit more humble perhaps?--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 01:38, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, interesting answer. So despite not having had anything to do with me in the past you have decided to stalk me and antagonise me? My comment above was directly related to the edit you made to this article. There was no indication in that footnote that it was intended to be a reference (for a start, to what does it refer?), it just used the ref tags incorrectly. The more collegial and productive route would have been for you to note that for a fix, or even for you to have made the required fix yourself. Why didn't you? Pyrope 01:42, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagging original research and bogus reference 

message: Missing percentage under Historic paint mixing formulas Pdb100 (talk) 09:54, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing percentage