Talk:Orange (colour)

Disputed

The section of "Confucianism" is disputed. As a native Chinese speaker，I'm very sure that the colour of orange does take its Chinese name from the orange fruit, not from saffron (see wiktionary or MCCD). Also, I doubt that the colour of orange had the meaning of transformation or anything in Confucianism, since it was never a basic colour in China until 20th century (see 赵晓驰 258 ff.). In my opinion, Eva Heller, who was a color psychologist but not a historian, must have read some wrong information about China thus written wrong statements in her book.——三猎 (talk) 08:10, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

"Paganism"

Please change the line saying "in Paganism" to "in Wicca", as per the source of that line. The claim that the colour orange has the same meaning across all of pagan religions, or that "paganism" is some cohesive whole, is quite ridiculous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.232.108.89 (talk) 20:27, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Mention of wrong William III

The first line in the third paragraph in the "House of Orange" subsection under "History and Art" links to the page of William III of the Netherlands (1817 - 1890), whereas the discussion is about the William III of England (better known as William of Orange). This can be confirmed as the paragraph later talks about the Orangemen, and that article clearly states that the name is a reference to William III of England. 103.175.10.170 (talk) 19:48, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 August 2025

Change Dravidian root word (compare நரந்தம்/നാരങ്ങ nārandam/nārañja which refers to bitter orange in Tamil and Malayalam).[9] to Dravidian root word நரந்தம்/നാരങ്ങ (nārandam/nārañja), which refers to bitter orange in Tamil and Malayalam.[9]

Taken from the following sentence from "Etymology" section: The French word, in turn, comes from the Italian arancia,[7][8] based on Arabic نارنج (nāranj), borrowed from Persian نارنگ (nārang), derived from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga), which in turn derives from a Dravidian root word (compare நரந்தம்/നാരങ്ങ nārandam/nārañja which refers to bitter orange in Tamil and Malayalam).[9] Mousssssse (talk) 19:26, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: the lexemes printed are Tamil and Malayalam, not the Dravidian root word they both descended from. Remsense 🌈 论 19:57, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Tertiary colour codes

The main 12 colours of the colour wheel must be consistently equal degrees apart, defining Orange as a mixture of red and yellow tertiary (which means an equal mixture) is an inconsistent contradiction. These colours are not designated with web colour hex codes like Purple (800080) or Pink (FFC0CB), and as such are designated with the equidistant (approximate) codes in HSV and HSL. 24.161.65.230 (talk) 17:31, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Color/Sources for Color Coordinates for more info. 24.161.65.230 (talk) 17:35, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 April 2026

Gingea (talk) 02:58, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: see WP:SPELLING DiscoursesonLivvy (talk · contribs) 03:10, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

I would like to fix the word from colour to color