Category talk:Combinations of 7 colors
Odd, uncustomary category title: it should be Four colors Orrlingtalk 23:26, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
Moving the nomination from the mover-bot request list where I originally posted it: {{move cat|Four-color|Four colors|3=[[User:Orrling|<span style="color:orange;">Orrling</span>]][[User talk:Orrling|<span style="color:grey;">talk</span>]] 04:49, 23 October 2013 (UTC)}}
- Four-color is consistent with sister cats Bicolor and Tricolor. --Pitke (talk) 21:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- This is a very odd way to name categories honestly. Please see Category:Four people, Category:Three matching outfits, Category:Multiple flags. This category is simply meant to host files that consist of three colours, just as its current content manifests. It's not a case of Six-wheeled vehicles. I propose the rename of "Bicolor" and "Tricolor" to Two colors and Three colors; futhermore, if it was meant to be consistent with Bicolor and Tricolor then this cat would have needed to be Category:Quadricolor. Orrlingtalk 22:57, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- Let's take this to a proper CfD. Changing Bicolor and Tricolor would affect a whole bunch of subcats. --Pitke (talk) 21:47, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
- This is a very odd way to name categories honestly. Please see Category:Four people, Category:Three matching outfits, Category:Multiple flags. This category is simply meant to host files that consist of three colours, just as its current content manifests. It's not a case of Six-wheeled vehicles. I propose the rename of "Bicolor" and "Tricolor" to Two colors and Three colors; futhermore, if it was meant to be consistent with Bicolor and Tricolor then this cat would have needed to be Category:Quadricolor. Orrlingtalk 22:57, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
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Note: Category:Four-color was redirected to Category:Four colors in June 2014 before this discussion had any resolution, partly because the way Orrling (since permanently banned, btw) tried to add this to CfD didn't quite work, making the discussion largely invisble. So the category remains at Category:Four colors but everything else in Category:Color combinations has the previous style (e.g. Category:Five-color, Category:Six-color. I think we should choose a consistent way to name the categories here. - Themightyquill (talk) 16:01, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
@Pitke and Themightyquill: Numeric representation is better than word-based representation of numbers, note the parent category Category:Groups of 4. Something like Category:Combinations of 4 colors or Category:Groups of 4 colors I think would be superior to having to hash out between "four-color", "four colors" or "quadricolor". Using "4" instead of "four" makes it that much easier to be precise and for non-English speakers to use. I would recommend applying this to all color combination categories. Also, if it makes more sense, we can close this discussion and open a CfD at the Category:Color combinations level to apply to the entire tree. Josh (talk) 17:26, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
- That makes sense to me. I think Category:Combinations of 4 colors would be best. - Themightyquill (talk) 20:26, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Rename Category:Combinations of 4 colors. Same for other quantities. Josh (talk) 00:35, 26 January 2019 (UTC)