I propose that this template be moved to Template:Class/col, for the following reasons:

• "Classcol" is quite confusing not very descriptive.
• Although it is not currently used exclusively by Template:Class, it will when all the banners have been updated and the old-style templates (e.g. {{ a-class}}) have been deprecated.

— Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 18:39, 4 February 2010 (UTC) reply

We should take the opportunity to strike a blow for real English further clarify the use of the template (:D) by moving it to Template:Class/colour instead. Happy‑ melon 23:15, 4 February 2010 (UTC) reply

Ooh, controversial! — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 08:28, 5 February 2010 (UTC) reply

 moved and redirects updated. — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 18:53, 7 February 2010 (UTC) reply

I see WP:Louisville are now using "Audio-Class", for which no colour is defined here. Since this is effectively a(nother) sub class of "File-Class", I propose it be assigned the same colour (#ddccff). Any objections? PC78 ( talk) 11:55, 23 August 2010 (UTC) reply

This was suggested in the original discussion but I pointed out that the project is also using Image-class and so a different colour would probably be preferable. Also I don't see any harm in leaving it colourless until we get a request from the project. — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 18:16, 24 August 2010 (UTC) reply

As an aside, I've updated {{ Articles by Quality}} to allow for custom classes, so now Audio is shown on Category:Louisville articles by quality. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 18:53, 24 August 2010 (UTC) reply

Nice! — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 08:34, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

Well, I see WOSlinker made the same suggestion as I in that discussion. ;) I don't see any inherant problem in using the same colour in this case, nor do I think it would be inappropriate to do so without a request from the project. They would, of course, be free to request a change at a later date, but it's perhaps reasonable to assume that they aren't that bothered one way or another. I don't think it should be left colourless, though. PC78 ( talk) 10:54, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

I would have no objections to using the same colour for Audio as Image & File. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 11:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

Well seems a bit pointless to me, but I suppose I don't object either. — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 16:41, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

 Done I've added audio. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 22:39, 25 August 2010 (UTC) reply

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Some wikiprojects are using "SIA" as an assessment class for "set index articles" with its own category (e.g. Category:SIA-Class Spiders articles). (Other wikiprojects, like WP:PLANTS, use |class=sia but alias this to "List-Class" at present, but could separate out SIAs in future.) Please add:

| sia          = #ccaaff

to the template to produce a similar, but lighter, colour to that for List-Class. Peter coxhead ( talk) 09:25, 16 January 2016 (UTC) reply

 Done -- WOSlinker ( talk) 10:38, 16 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Just a thought, but SL-Class (currently used only by WP:PLANTS) is equivalent to both Stub and Start Class. It might therefore be more logical for SL-Class to use a blend of those two colours, i.e.  #FF8866 , rather than the same colour as Stub-Class. PC78 ( talk) 23:24, 5 June 2016 (UTC) reply

I'd like to propose making the following colour changes for Current-Class and User-Class:

It's only a subtle change, the new colours are similar to those we use now but are slightly more muted and more in keeping with the overall scheme. Any objections? PC78 ( talk) 23:54, 6 June 2016 (UTC) reply

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No objections raised to the above proposal, please update this sub-template with the code at {{ class/colour/sandbox}}. Testcases, if need be, at {{ class/colour/testcases}}, though it's a simple enough change. PC78 ( talk) 00:01, 28 June 2016 (UTC) reply

 Done — xaosflux ^Talk 02:12, 28 June 2016 (UTC) reply

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{{ WikiProject Portals}} uses FPo-Class for Featured Portals, but the class in the banner has a transparent background (example: Portal talk:Africa) instead of the   #6699ff colour that the other featured classes use.

Please add the line

 | fpo          = #6699ff

as per this edit to the sandbox (see testcases). - Evad37 [ talk 01:12, 4 June 2018 (UTC) reply

 Done — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 11:40, 4 June 2018 (UTC) reply

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Replace Template:Class/colour with Template:Class/colour/sandbox. This merges Bplus/B+ to B, per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 June 30#Bplus-Class articles. Has been tested, at Template:Class/colour/testcases.  —  SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:37, 19 July 2018 (UTC) reply

Why are my suggestions being discarded? -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 18:26, 19 July 2018 (UTC) reply

 Not done pending discussion above. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:52, 14 August 2018 (UTC) reply

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Please update with the version currently in the sandbox. This implements:

• the changes made by Redrose64, to make it obvious which classes are using the same colour
• the changes made by SMcCandlish to merge B+ to B-class, per the above edit request
• new classes that WikiProject Portals has adopted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Assessment

- Evad37 [ talk 03:10, 5 September 2018 (UTC) reply

I believe the first and second points above are uncontroversial. I am a little unsure about the third because we are adding a lot of new custom classes which will be only used by one project. I also cannot see any recent discussion about this on the project's talk page. Please can you point me towards any relevant discussions? — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 11:01, 5 September 2018 (UTC) reply

@ MSGJ: The original (very long) thread can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Archive 6 § Proposed new quality class assessments. The final agreed-upon classes are at the bottom of the page. — AfroThundr ^{( u · t · c)} 11:13, 5 September 2018 (UTC) reply

@ MSGJ: There's already several classes which are only used by one or only a few projects, such as SL, Merge, and to a lesser extent CL (several task forces, but MILHIST is the only project there). What's the harm of having a few more, especially as they only show up in project banners etc when a custom class mask which has those classes specified is used? - Evad37 [ talk 14:40, 5 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Okay I accept your points. It would be more ideal if these colours could be set locally, but there is currently no way to do this.  Added — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 06:52, 6 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Currently, the "Featured", "Stub", "List", "Current", "Future", "SIA", "SL", "Draft", and "Portal" levels violate the accessibility requirements of WP:COLOR when standard blue link text is used in the foreground. I am proposing changing the template to the follow values, which meet the WCAG 2.0 AA requirements for normal-sized text and the AAA requirements for large text:

-- Ahecht ( TALK
PAGE) 15:11, 13 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Definitely better, even for those whose only problem is advancing age! Peter coxhead ( talk) 16:27, 13 September 2018 (UTC) reply

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Please synchronize the main template with the current sandbox version to update the colors per #Color scheme doesn't meet accessibility requirements. That discussion has been open for 7 days without objection. Ahecht ( TALK
PAGE) 18:11, 20 September 2018 (UTC) reply

 Done — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 22:03, 20 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Definitely an improvement, except the new versions of SL and Stub are hard to read (Current, too, but not quite a bad). There's insufficient luminosity and contrast difference between the letters and the background (whether AAA says so or not).  —  SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:59, 8 November 2018 (UTC) reply

In reference to the above discussion from last year, I note that the colours presently used for Deferred-Class and User-Class also fail the same accessibility requirements. I would therefore like to suggest that we change these to the following values to bring them in line with the rest:

As per above, the new colours meet the WCAG 2.0 AA requirements for normal-sized text and the AAA requirements for large text. PC78 ( talk) 15:13, 5 September 2019 (UTC) reply

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Please update this subtemplate with the sandboxed code at Template:Class/colour/sandbox. The following changes are made:

• Colours for Deferred-Class and User-Class changed per above.
• Added common synonyms that are used in {{ Class mask}}, i.e. "disamb" for Disambig, "redir" for Redirect, "tpl" for Template, etc.
• Code tidied and caps used for all hex triplets (for the sake of consistency).

Should it be necessary, sandboxed code is tested at Template:Class/colour/testcases and Template:Class/colour/doc/sandbox. PC78 ( talk) 17:52, 13 September 2019 (UTC) reply

 Done @ PC78: this has been synced in, please update the primary documentation as needed. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:16, 16 September 2019 (UTC) reply

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Please add:

 | help                                  = #FFA4EB

To this code. I've tested it at the sandbox. It is for WikiProject Wikisource which I plan on restarting. – MJL  ‐Talk‐ ^☖ 17:28, 11 December 2019 (UTC) reply

 Done there were a couple of other changes in the sandbox which I have not synchronised — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 02:23, 16 December 2019 (UTC) reply