Template talk:Shades of color

message: I reverted the heading size back to the default, the larger size made the navbox look out of place when nested among other navboxes on a page. PaleAqua (talk) 22:28, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heading size 

message: Template needs expanded to allow more than fifty colors.  See Template:Shades of blue which has 51 colors.
The edit would be to add a sixth section for another ten colors.
VMS Mosaic (talk) 07:56, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. The first step would be to code it on Template:Shades of color/sandbox. Then test it thoroughly and consult other editors. Then request the edit. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:26, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

text: Looks good. VMS Mosaic (talk) 20:45, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:17, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More colors 

message: This template has little history of vandalism and has fewer than 500 translusions. I propose that semi-protection would be adequate. What do others think? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Semi-protection seems reasonable to me. PaleAqua (talk) 12:20, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, protection lowered. So I'll leave the updating to you now :) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:30, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome and thanks for all the help. PaleAqua (talk) 12:34, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

text: Should the sub templates also be semi-protected? They have no protection now. VMS Mosaic (talk) 23:33, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:36, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection 

message: This strikes me as rather silly. The samples are "indicative" as opposed to what? What is a non-indicative sample?
See also Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles.
--dab (𒁳) 09:47, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll have to see if I can find the discussion that lead to that addition again. The big issue we have is that there is an erroneous assumption that a color term corresponds to exactly one RGB color coordinate. If I recall the disclaimer came from this issue, though it really isn't the best approach. It can be seen in the proliferation of color infobox boxes especially those on the shades of .... articles. There is also the whole display calibration issue. Note that WP:DISCLAIM has has the technical exception which I believe applies in this case. I do believe that a better approach should be found. ( I would love to see redesigned color navigation boxes and infoboxes that would better deal with presenting the information. One of the problems in my opinion is that the shades of color templates are user both as navigational templates and as color samples. This means that they tend to end up with duplicate links to the same color articles for slightly different shades ( hues, tints, etc. ) of the same color and that they are full of original research. There are a large number of colors on the various pages which use color samples grabbed off random pictures as the definitive coordinates. Especially when you consider how few of these pictures have proper color management information. PaleAqua (talk) 05:08, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "The samples shown above are only indicative"

message: I really don't like it that whenever I use these templates, it automatically adds a category listing to the page that I can't remove. Right now, I have all of the templates on my Whiteboard/Sandbox just so I can experiment with different colors and I can see what they are called but now my Whiteboard page has all of these nonremovable categories on it and if you go to :Category:Shades of brown and other colors, you'll see my Whiteboard page listed there along with actually relevant pages. 
I don't feel it's my place to remove this feature from all of the shade templates but, seriously, what were you thinking to automatically assign categories which can not be removed or deleted? It's ridiculous to see my sandbox page listed under all of these color categories along with pages about colors. Liz Read! Talk! 20:25, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template categories 

message: Can the spacing be fixed on the grid that this template produces? It gives alternating rows of text and colour boxes, but the spacing between each row is the same above and below. If you look at the middle of the grid, it's very easy (and possibly more natural?) to read any given caption as referring to the colour box above it, rather than below. Can we reduce the bottom margin on all the text? I had a go at changing the padding in :Template:Shades of color/10, but it didn't work. --Lord Belbury (talk) 18:12, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing spacing 

message: I think it would make sense if the sample had lilac and turquoise instead of cyan and magenta due to lilac and turquoise being "new" basic color terms, while cyan and magenta aren't basic color terms as cyan may fall under blue, azure, and turquoise, while magenta falls under red and purple, maybe even pink. Speaking of the color azure, I guess azure and beige should be here as well since both are also basic colors in Italian, Russian, and Hebrew and French, respectively. Just my opinion. IndieTheFurry (talk) 04:45, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional color shades