Talk:Honor society

Processional Colors

One of the key identifiers of a student's achievement of membership in an honor society is their ability to wear the colors of that society as an accessory over their academic robes or on a mortarboard tassel. Hence, I added several dozen examples of these colors to various societies, creating a format convention that I think will be helpful. The director of the ACHS informed me that such usage is not only popular, but growing.

Future editors: Use this coding if you wish to follow the same format and add colors to another society. (Or to correct my mistakes.)

After the name of the society and the area of profession in parenthesis, add a comma, and insert the following language, updated of course with Wikilinks to your specific colors and correct swatches:
colors: {{color box|#FF0000}} [[Red]] and {{color box|#8F00FF}} [[Violet (color)|Violet]]

would result in this:

Colors:   Red and   Violet

The HEX code after the pipe identifies the color of the colorblock, and the following Wikilink connects to a page for the specific color or color family.

Frankly, some honor societies are more organized than others, and some are pickier than others about their exact colors. For example, while one that I worked on listed "blue" as one of their colors, I had to do some digging to find which version of blue was appropriate. The most definitive statement may often be found in the society's bylaws or constitution if you can find those documents, or by matching to a swatch from actual regalia, or from a crest. You will find that some honor society websites have tried to match to the actual society's colors, but with greater or lesser success depending on the skills of the webmaster or the limits of the website authoring tool; the color pallets they chose from may have been limited. Some of my additions were, in the end, best guesses as to EXACT color.

I found these Wikipedia pages particularly helpful in finding good Hex color numbers (# followed by six letters or numbers) that called up a specific color.

• List of colors: A–F
• List of colors: G–M
• List of colors: N–Z

Failing those many hundreds of colors, this website appears to provide an exhaustive list.

The ACHS Wikipedia page lists the colors of many of their member organizations. Jax MN (talk) 17:07, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Non-notable societies

I am removing the following from the main article until the society has a Wikipedia article or notability can be documented. Note that having a website or simply existing does not equal notability.

• Activities Honorary Society at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Alpha Mu, , (Agricultural Systems Management)
• American Sign Language Honor Society (American Sign Language)
• Bisonhead at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• Chi Beta Lambda, ΧΒΛ (competency-based learning), colors:   Navy blue,   Pink, and   White
• Gamma Nu Eta, (information technology)
• Lion's Paw at the Pennsylvania State University
• National Adult Education Honor Society (adult high school) anyone can join, so may not really be an honor society
• National Business Honor Society (business)
• National Chinese Honor Society (Chinese)
• National Society of High School Scholars
• Order of The Key Honor Society (leadership)
• Phi Kappa Alpha (Syracuse), ΦΚΑ (leadership) Dormant, as of 1961
• Plumb Bob at the University of Minnesota
• Tiger Brotherhood at the Clemson University
• White Key Society at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is this even an honor society?; says service and leadership.

Rublamb (talk) 01:55, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

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