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Split: "Orange" → "Orange (color)", August 2002: Used "colour" before the split.
Move: "Orange (color)" → "Orange (colour)", March 2004: Accepted.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange (color)", June 2005: Opposed.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange (color)", October 2005: Opposed.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange (color)", April 2006: Opposed.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange", April 2006: Opposed.
Move: "Orange (colour)" → "Orange_(color)", November 2007. US English spelling of "color": Opposed

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Shouldn't this be Orange (color), in order to remain consistent with the rest of Wikipedia?

Kosmosi (talk) 12:15, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, because the article was originally created in British English, and by Wikipedia policy articles are supposed to remain in the variant in which they were started. Cordially, SiefkinDR (talk) 18:21, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, if no other reason than it is Wikipedia custom to use Standard English (also known as "English English", "International English", "American English", "Internet English" or "Web English") and not British English. No one murders the queen's English quite like the British, eh? This article should be changed to remain consistent with the rest of Wikipedia. 173.209.103.75 (talk) 15:48, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

English English and International English both spell it "colour". There's no such thing as "Internet English" or "Web English". 88.98.86.128 (talk) 16:08, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sports Teams

Can we stop putting Wests Tigers and Blackpool in this article. Both these clubs wear different colours to orange - Wests Tigers wear gold, Blackpool wear tangerine. Weststigersbob (talk) 06:39, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Should the etymology only pertain to English?

Well explained is the origin of the fruit's name, but there is little reference to when this term came to refer to a colour. This article is about the colour, so the etymology section should be about the origins of this word being used to refer to the colour - and not just in English. It definitely didn't start with English, though the article currently does make it look like 1512 was the first time anyone did it. A text from 1282 shows that it was already used to refer to a colour (always of carpets) in Middle Dutch, where the term had entered through Old French. Another notable aspect is that rebracketing caused the loss of the original "n-" in several European languages, but not all, meaning the word had already entered the vocabulary of a lot of languages before a commonly accepted form could be established in Europe. The fact that so many languages added some form of it to their vocabulary, that it appeared in Middle Dutch only in regards to the colour of rugs and that it gained traction so widely from Arabic (about as widely as some scientific terms, of which it is obvious why they spread) hints at it already being used as a colour (at least for certain trade goods like rugs) by the Persians and perhaps the Indians. This isn't much of a stretch as the Persian and Hindi words for the colour "orange" also come from the Persian and Sanskrit names of the fruit, respectively. It would be great to actually have a source that can give a clearer picture. Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 15:38, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Sports Teams

Would it be appropriate to remove sports team color list, and start a new article like "List of sports teams using the color orange" ? This would potentially be applicable to other colors as well. DancerEE (talk) 22:37, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. There are a large number of sports teams around the world that features this color (or some shade of the color). We really do not need a list. If we're discussing seldom used sporting colors such as pink or brown then a list is more appropriate. Not only is the list long on this page, we're missing a number of teams.G. Capo (talk) 19:24, 3 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Possible removal from list

An entry in List of colors: N–Z contained a link to this page.

The entry is :

Pastel orange

I don't see any evidence that this color is discussed in this article and plan to delete it from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors#New_approach_to_review_of_entries

If someone decides that this color should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.--S Philbrick (Talk) 17:46, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]