Talk:Maize (color)

This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Sedum link

WARNING - the quotation referring to wildflowers I BELIEVE refers to Sedum stenopetalum, but I cannot be sure; I have linked to Sedum, but there is a chance that may be incorrect. Thmazing (talk) 22:02, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

It looks like this is the better sourced of the two stubs on this color. I think Corn (color) should be merged here. PaleAqua (talk) 22:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I've only ever heard of maize as a color, not corn. Thmazing (talk) 05:26, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've heard both terms for the grain. See [1] and [2]. Mostly I've heard the term applied to what is know as Indian corn. In some dialects of English corn also includes other grains. (see 3a of [3] and notice that it comes before 3b and 4.) PaleAqua (talk) 05:38, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, I know all that. I just mean that I've never seen a crayon called 'corn.' Where I've lived we never call the grain maize, so it's the color and the grain gets to be corn. Thmazing (talk) 20:03, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah sorry read your comment backwards. Probably will give this a few more days then if no other comments just replace the Corn (color) page with a redirect here, and possibly bring over the coordinate free color box and picture. To be honest I've considered bring deletion request against both articles for notability or merging into a variations of yellow page if other such articles on yellows exists. PaleAqua (talk) 22:27, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are there similar 'variations of [color]' page for other colors? Thmazing (talk) 21:00, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh: and incidentally, I'm opposed to closing down color pages. Although many--nearly all--are quite short, I think it's helpful to give them their own pages. Specifically, I occasionally adds cites (like those here) to show usage, and I don't think that would work as well on a combined page. Also, if similar pages don't exist for other portions of the spectrum, I think the conversation will need to be taken up to a higher level before proceeding. Thmazing (talk) 21:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, I think merging corn and maize is fine, though. I've been looking around and I still haven't found anyone using the word 'corn' as a color. Thmazing (talk) 21:04, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Similar pages already exists for other colors in the spectrum, variations of green was the first of them, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Color/Archive 4#Merging_minor_colors_together and Special:PrefixIndex/Variations of. Considering the small number of people active in Wikipedia:WikiProject color more input is always welcome. My biggest concerns is that the color articles don't mislead, and are properly sourced and notable. I've been slowly (slowly is a bit of an understatement to be honest) and some what randomly looking through the articles for different colors and trying to verify what's there. PaleAqua (talk) 00:20, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merged. PaleAqua (talk) 01:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Voila. Thmazing (talk) 02:38, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]