The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that's between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres.
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The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that's between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres.
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The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that's between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres.
I have just discovered a subtle, covert international conflict
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@mcc would be funny if the pages for “Gray” and “Grey” were exactly the same except that the former uses “color” and the latter “colour”
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@mcc Wikipedia has a policy of preserving a particular spelling convention on a single page, unless there's a strong national tie for that particular term to a particular country (so a page about a distinctly American topic should use "color", while a page on a distinctly British topic should use "colour").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Retaining_the_existing_variety
Since colors have no strong national ties, the Wikipedia convention would be to leave their spelling as the first person to create the page had spelled them.
So I was curious; have these pages always followed this convention?
Looking at the oldest revisions on Wikipedia:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red&oldid=278067
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yellow&oldid=298321
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green&oldid=254625
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue&oldid=332243358So it was 2 and 2, now it's 3 and 1. At some point someone changed the spelling on green, though it may have been before that policy was put in place.
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@mcc Wikipedia has a policy of preserving a particular spelling convention on a single page, unless there's a strong national tie for that particular term to a particular country (so a page about a distinctly American topic should use "color", while a page on a distinctly British topic should use "colour").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Retaining_the_existing_variety
Since colors have no strong national ties, the Wikipedia convention would be to leave their spelling as the first person to create the page had spelled them.
So I was curious; have these pages always followed this convention?
Looking at the oldest revisions on Wikipedia:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red&oldid=278067
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yellow&oldid=298321
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green&oldid=254625
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue&oldid=332243358So it was 2 and 2, now it's 3 and 1. At some point someone changed the spelling on green, though it may have been before that policy was put in place.
@mcc Here's the revision that changed Green from "colour" to "color."
This revision also added information on Toki Pona not having a distinct word for "green."
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green&diff=prev&oldid=37997
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@mcc Wikipedia has a policy of preserving a particular spelling convention on a single page, unless there's a strong national tie for that particular term to a particular country (so a page about a distinctly American topic should use "color", while a page on a distinctly British topic should use "colour").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Retaining_the_existing_variety
Since colors have no strong national ties, the Wikipedia convention would be to leave their spelling as the first person to create the page had spelled them.
So I was curious; have these pages always followed this convention?
Looking at the oldest revisions on Wikipedia:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red&oldid=278067
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yellow&oldid=298321
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green&oldid=254625
* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue&oldid=332243358So it was 2 and 2, now it's 3 and 1. At some point someone changed the spelling on green, though it may have been before that policy was put in place.
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@mcc the troll in me want to add 青 in as a colour, and watch the online nerds take the bait and go into 20 year long doxxing/harassment campaigns over is it green, blue, turquoise, black, grey, or white.
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@glitzersachen @unlambda @mcc I guess it should be spelled “color” on the pages for Red, White, and Blue, and “colour” on all the other ones?
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@glitzersachen @unlambda @mcc I guess it should be spelled “color” on the pages for Red, White, and Blue, and “colour” on all the other ones?
@ShadSterling @glitzersachen @unlambda @mcc UK flag has the same colours though
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