Talk:Color (disambiguation)

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Cause[edit]

"Color is a visible property of light, and derived from this, of objects"? Color is caused by properties of light, in that the color of an object consists of those aspects of its way of reflecting light that we can perceive. But epistemologically, isn't the order reversed in the sentence above? Different frequencies of light are said have different colors only because differences in those frequencies were discovered to be part of the causal chain by which we perceive colors of objects; colors of objects were known first. Michael Hardy 22:30 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

Wikipedia color codes[edit]

can there also be a link to the color codes the 'pedia uses, like at Web colors? Chris 22:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a poem called coloured![edit]

when i born , i black when i grow up , i black when i go in sun , i black when i scared , i black when i sick , i black and when i die , i still black

and you , white fellow, when you born , you pink when you grow up , you white when you gp in sun , you red when you cold , you blue when you scared , you yellow when you sick , you green when you die , you grey

and you call me COLOURED

can we add this? I don't know the source.--TheEgyptian 14:30, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Colours, the military ceremony[edit]

The link isn't correct. Currently, "colours" only redirect to "color". Should it point to Colours, standards and guidons instead? CapnZapp (talk) 23:40, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Linking it to Colours, standards and guidons#Ceremonies of Colours might be better. VMS Mosaic (talk) 20:14, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Color (medieval music)[edit]

Color (medieval music) should be merged to Color (disambiguation) since "Color (medieval music)" only has two entries. Hyacinth (talk) 08:20, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But Color (medieval music) isn't a disambiguation page. It has actual encyclopedic content. It's a "multi-stub article" in the sense of WP:DAB, joining several related topics in a single article, but it's a regular article nevertheless. Content of this type could not be integrated in a disambiguation page; it would be lost. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:32, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Problematic entries in this list[edit]

Some of the entries in this list seem to be dictionary definitions, that belong elsewhere, possibly wikitionary. For instance, under Color (disambiguation)#Science we currently have an entry to Dye. So I checked Dye, which had a piped link [[[[color|colour]]ed which I changed to [[wiktionary:colored|colour]]ed

Under Color (disambiguation)#Visual art we have

Color, in typography, the overall density and balance between white space and print in a page layout

I know something about typography, but have not come across this term. My problem with this entry is do any articles on typography use the term "color"? Do they link to color, or something like color (typography)? If they link to color (typography) then the redlink to color (typography) should be used in the disambiguation page entry. And if none of the contributors to typography ever linked to color, no disambiguation entry is needed here.

Under Color (disambiguation)#Other uses in music we have

Tone color, or timbre
Color, in medieval music theory, a sequence of repeated notes in the cantus firmus tenor of a composition, in isorhythm
Coloration, in medieval music theory, a technique of marking notes, in mensural notation

With regard to the first entry, does this really need disambiguation? Isn't the title distinct enough it couldn't be confused with actual colours?
With regard to the second entry, I tried to read isorythm, it never links to color. It doesn't link to anything like color (isorhythm) either. One has to be careful when considering copy-editing material one doesn't understand, and I frankly lack the musical background to understand the article on isorhythm. However, I think this entry should only exist if there was a possibility some other article needed to link to the concept of a color (isorhythm), and then this entry should also include a link to color (isorhythm).
We have an article Color (medieval music), which has subsections Color (medieval music)#Coloration (mensural notation device), Color (medieval music)#Color (isorhythm), Color (medieval music)#Coloration (ornamentation), Color (medieval music)#Color (chromaticism)

There are more problematic entries. Geo Swan (talk) 19:14, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]