Talk:Color#Warning

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]], American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or (talk) 19:11, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

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The lead paragraph has gotten problematic again. It now reads:

Color (or colour in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.

I have trouble understanding this. We had a pretty nice one in mid-2022:

Color (American English) or colour (British English) is the visual perceptual property deriving from the spectrum of light interacting with the photoreceptor cells of the eyes.

and about six months before that:

Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called blue, green, red, etc.

Seems to me it's gotten less understandable with each iteration. There's a good reason that in September of 2021, we rolled the lead clear back to 2016, based on the discussion on top of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Color/Archive_8 this archive] and what preceded it. I think we need to look backwards again. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 05:10, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

:Colour is derived from the electromagnetic spectrum, but is only a very small part of it. Also, other living things can perceive colour although they may not do it in exactly the same way as humans. The lead should make these things clear.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:06, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

:Agreed that the mid-2022 leading sentence is better than what is now. I would definitely not lead with something like "color is the quantity that is often described as blue, green, red, etc.", which is maybe useful in simple english, but would definitely not be useful information to anyone reading this article. Color is 99% a projection the EM spectrum. The extra 1% is just higher level corrections in the brain, which then brings human-centricity into account. No need to shy away from defining color starting most importantly with the EM spectrum. Curran919 (talk) 07:16, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

I agree....the old versions did a better job of explaining. Probably better than them all would be a summary that addresses the dichotomy. Some meanings "color" are technical (eg assigning color names to particular wavelengths/ frequencies) but most meanings are a human perceptions. North8000 (talk) 18:14, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

:Should ping @8-leaf clover, the editor responsible for these changes. I also think they're generally deleterious. Remsense ‥ 论 07:18, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

::Hi. While I honestly don't remember changing the lead (at least not significantly), I completely agree in that the 2022 one is much more accurate than the current one (which can create the misconception that color = wavelengths, making people believe false things like "magenta doesn't exist because it's not in the visible spectrum"). 8-leaf clover (talk) 11:50, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

This section is confusing:

• 'TEO' is a bolt out of the blue (not established in the article).
• The secend paragraph, "The exact nature of color perception beyond the processing already described, and indeed the status of color as a feature of the perceived world or rather as a feature of our perception of the world—a type of qualia—is a matter of complex and continuing philosophical dispute." Has a 'citation needed' tag, a bold statement to have no supporting source.
• The text uses labels (V1, V2, V3, and V4, the image has no labels). The word 'blobs' in the text is neither explained nor blue-linked though 'globs' is blue-linked.
• The phrase "separating the thin stripes are interstripes and thick stripes" is made less meaningful because the image is unlabeled, bringing into question whether the stripes are physically present in the brain or refer to missing graphical keys.

The current version of this section (as of April 23, 2025) is difficult for the general user to get through. Most will hum and skim the material as it is now.

I do not do graphics. What I can do is improve the text and ask others to label the drawing. If someone does not reply or improve the section within a few weeks, I intend to edit the section. I am not a subject matter expert; my technical color experience experience is limited to matching cameras, monitors, and lighting with a vector scope (an electronic polar display of color content in a video signal).

— Neonorange (talk to Phil) (he, they) 12:57, 23 April 2025 (UTC) —

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Correct the misspelling of chromaticity before citation 44.

Change "In short: In optimal color solids, spectral colors are equivalent to black (0 lightness, 0 chroma), but have full spectral purity (they are located in the horseshoe-shaped spectral locus of the chromaticiy diagram).[44]"

To "In short: In optimal color solids, spectral colors are equivalent to black (0 lightness, 0 chroma), but have full spectral purity (they are located in the horseshoe-shaped spectral locus of the chromaticity diagram).[44]" Amber Diatribe (talk) 01:13, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

{{done}} PianoDan (talk) 01:56, 15 May 2025 (UTC)