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@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

@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=332243358

So 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.