Talk:Variations of gray

Need more gray-grays.

Steel, coal, graphite, etc.

Requested move

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No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 02:52, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Variations of gray → Variations of grey — Suggesting move to "grey-with-an-e" for standardisation with other articles, i.e. main article Grey, Grey (disambiguation), links on {{Shades of grey}} -- saberwyn 06:42, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Survey

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• Oppose per WP:ENGVAR. Jenks24 (talk) 15:39, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
  • For example, have a look at the inconsistency within Category:Colors – we don't change from one variety of English to another just for consistency with other articles. Jenks24 (talk) 19:23, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:ENGVAR. It should be well known, but for those who would like confirmation, gray is the standard American spelling (for example, refer to Cambridge Guide to English Usage: "The use of [gray or grey] is now clearly regionalized, with Americans strongly preferring gray, and grey as the standard form in Britain and Australia. Canadians are more inclined to grey than gray"). The consistency that WP:ENGVAR demands is within each article; a move based on "standardisation with other articles" when this is explicitly addressed by WP:ENGVAR is unjustifiable. Some standardized rigour (talk) 06:52, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

• Support. I favour closer conformity between obviously related articles. The mere fact that we favour intra-article consistency so strongly should not weigh against consistency across articles; rather, the wider consistency should be seen as an extension of the narrower. "Main article: Grey" looks ridiculous at the very top of the present article, next to a title that includes gray. Not only do I support this RM, I suggest a multiple RM to gather together all articles with grey or gray (as colours) in their titles, to move to one or the other variant. There should be more such multiple RMs, instead of piecemeal patch-ups that take up too much time and normally provide no useful precedents. Noetica^Tea? 00:07, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Note: "Main article: Grey" can be rendered as "Main article: Gray", by adding "|l1=Gray", if this small spelling difference is perceived as too distracting. Some standardized rigour (talk) 07:33, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

• Support For consistency's sake--if the main article is "grey" all of the child articles should be "grey." —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:41, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

• If the article is not moved, the proposed name should be created as a redirect. Station1 (talk) 22:37, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

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Eeyore gray

No verification can be found for the existence of a widely used term "Eeyore gray".WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:41, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Missing grey color: Timberwolf

I searched #DBD7D2, the color of timberwolf, in source mode, but I cannot find timberwolf. Consider adding? ---TacticalMaster (talk) 01:14, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Requested move Variations/Shades

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The result of the move request was: no consensus, so not moved. An identical (or at least massively overlapping) set of articles has been listed for discussion in at least 4 separate locations: Talk:Variations of brown, Talk:Variations of cyan, Talk:Variations of pink, Talk:Variations of gray.
Listing the same articles in multiple locations is totally contary to WP:MULTI, and disrupts consensus formation by fragmenting discussion.
I am therefore closing all 4 discussions as "no consensus", without prejudice to an immediate renomination of the same set in one location. Guidance on how to do so is available at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requesting_multiple_page_moves, and I will be happy to help doing that if asked on my talk page. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:49, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

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Variations of gray → Shades of gray – All relevant articles should be unified as per as per discussion.

Most follow currently the "Shades of …" naming scheme anyway, so change the remaining "Variations of …".

• Shades of white: leave unchanged
• Variations of gray: move to => Shades of gray
• Shades of black: leave unchanged
• Shades of red: leave unchanged
• Shades of green: leave unchanged
• Shades of blue: leave unchanged
• Variations of cyan: move to => Shades of cyan
• Variations of pink: move to => Shades of pink
• Shades of violet: leave unchanged
• Shades of yellow: leave unchanged
• Shades of orange: leave unchanged
• Variations of brown: move to => Shades of brown Tony Mach (talk) 11:41, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

• Support all for consistency, and because "shades" more clearly relates to colors. bd2412 T 17:26, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support all per my comments at Variations of pink. PaleAqua (talk) 10:47, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

  Do we need to consider various "Shades of Grey" books? PaleAqua (talk) 01:10, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

  WP:DIFFCAPS should take care of that (along with the "gray/grey" distinction). bd2412 T 15:47, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

• Comment Note that the lead of most of these articles state tints and shades, and infact links to the artice Tints and shades too. IE, shouldn't these be Tints and shades of brown, etc? Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 20:55, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
  • See User:Ben Moore's response at Talk:Variations of brown#Requested move. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:49, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Variations of brown which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 14:44, 20 March 2014 (UTC)