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I'm going to nominate the following orphaned templates for deletion at WP:TFD (barring any objections before I get to it). These were found using Special:Prefixindex (specifically, using this query).
Two of those, subtropical and extratropical, had already been orphaned. — Locke Cole • t • c 11:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
should all give ff6699 → A z a Toth 15:53, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
What are the STS and strong colors? In the track maps there are just 7 colors: depression, storm, cat1, cat2, cat3, cat4, cat5. I fear that adding other colors or finer levels of distinction will only add confusion by diluting the color associations. There are about 7 different types of gale (35-70 mph winds) but we don't have different colors for each of them. — jdorje ( talk) 23:11, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I recently fixed the colors in this template so that they were not in violation of WP:CONTRAST, but was reverted. Dark text on dark backgrounds is not readable to people with poor vision. If dark colors are preferred, it would be better to create a new set of templates that do not use the colors as a background for text. Kaldari ( talk) 06:22, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Here is the change I would like to propose:
Old | F5 | F4 | F3 | F2 | F1 | STS | DEP | UNK |
New | F5 | F4 | F3 | F2 | F1 | STS | DEP | UNK |
As you can see, the F1 F5 color is the main one that needs to be changed. If you squint your eyes and look at all of the old colors, it is readily apparent that the F1 F5 text will be difficult to read for some people.
Kaldari (
talk)
02:19, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
As there seems to be resistance to changing the colors of the template, I'll suggest some other ways that the problem can be solved:
Any of these solutions should bring Infobox hurricane into compliance with WP:CONTRAST. Which of these solutions would be the best to implement? Kaldari ( talk) 04:58, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Wait... wait! I'm a member of the accessibility project. Kaldari made a mistake in the methodology for contrast evaluation. You see, the old algorithm for testing contrast was focused on color difference. It was difficult to comply to, and was abandoned in favor of the luminosity algorithm. You can see the difference for yourself at http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html
If you enter "000000" (black) as a foreground color, and "FF6060" (red) as a background color, you will get the following results.
There is no problem with the black text on the set of colors chosen in this template.
However, as you can see in Hurricane Hugo for example, links are often included in the header of the infobox. Foreground "0945AD" (blue links) on "FF6060" (red) fail to comply to WCAG 2.0 AA level. In conclusion, either the links have to be moved somewhere else in the infobox, either the set of colors will have to be changed indeed. I hope it helps. Dodoïste ( talk) 12:37, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
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Really outdated. You should change the wind speeds of the major hurricane categories. Category 4 needs its maximum wind speed upped by one. The Category 3 needs its maximum wind speed downed by one. The Category 5 needs its minimum winds upped by one. The Category 4 needs its minimum wind speed downed by obe. EpicBrutalGamer2009 ( talk) 11:38, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
as in storm template does this include Extratropical , Tornadoes and other storms? Gona need to make one for Tornadoes , using the hurricane scale for colors can be hard to tell from EF2 or EF3 or EF4 sometimes , would like to make a new Scale using Colors from Noaa. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshoctober16 ( talk • contribs) 20:29, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
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Replace the entire page with:
{{#invoke:Tropical cyclone categories|color}}<noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude>
Module:Tropical cyclone categories has existed for a while and is fully backwards-compatible with this template; see Module:Tropical cyclone categories#Compatibility. The module centralizes all tropical cyclone categories into one set of data, which should standardize all existing templates which are based on tropical cyclone categories. Chlod ( say hi!) 17:35, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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The scope of this template has expanded from tropical cyclone categories to include categories for more storm types (including tornadoes and winter storms). Please change the module invocation from
#invoke:Tropical cyclone categories
to
#invoke:Storm categories
. The former module now only exists as a temporary redirect following the module move.
Chlod (
say hi!)
23:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I checked the color contrast of each of the colors listed here, and all but one – the purple color #C464D9 – passed both the WCAG AA and AAA levels. It is required to pass AA, and encouraged to pass AAA. Using the tool, I found a slightly different shade that will pass both levels: #CA73DD. Can this be updated? Thrakkx ( talk) 12:47, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
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edit template-protected}}
template. Colors have been a topic of much contest. Please see
WT:WPWX for the whole discussion.
Chlod (
say hi!)
08:34, 8 September 2022 (UTC)Yesterday the colors were normal, whether traditional but now. I noticed that they changed something strange. They changed everything for some 'freak colors' that the truth was, it was me or I just visited the opposite encyclopedia. I found out it was true. Is it just a temporary test? Or will it stay permanently? МОДОКАУ 04:48, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
I noticed that the colors got an overhaul (most notably Category 4 & 5) and I was just wondering why? Corgimations ( talk) 08:02, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
@ Modokai and Corgimations: The colour changes are not freaky or ridiculous, but needed to chnage in order to keep the project in line with Wikipedia's rules on accessibility. Basically the project had pandoras box opened for it and is stuck between a rock and a hard place as we needed to change them but knew that there would be a lot of opposition once we did so. Jason Rees ( talk) 10:06, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Maybe we could make the colors more in line with the ones used on the YouTube channel “Force Thirteen“ by making tropical storms green, category fours scarlet and category fives raspberry-magenta? Who knows. Corgimations ( talk) 08:11, 26 February 2023 (UTC) @ Corgimations: You are more than welcome to propose a new colour scheme, but remember that the colours need to be accessible and be able to pass various tests. Jason Rees ( talk) 10:08, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
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Documentation moved to Template:Storm_colour/doc
I'm going to nominate the following orphaned templates for deletion at WP:TFD (barring any objections before I get to it). These were found using Special:Prefixindex (specifically, using this query).
Two of those, subtropical and extratropical, had already been orphaned. — Locke Cole • t • c 11:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
should all give ff6699 → A z a Toth 15:53, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
What are the STS and strong colors? In the track maps there are just 7 colors: depression, storm, cat1, cat2, cat3, cat4, cat5. I fear that adding other colors or finer levels of distinction will only add confusion by diluting the color associations. There are about 7 different types of gale (35-70 mph winds) but we don't have different colors for each of them. — jdorje ( talk) 23:11, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
I recently fixed the colors in this template so that they were not in violation of WP:CONTRAST, but was reverted. Dark text on dark backgrounds is not readable to people with poor vision. If dark colors are preferred, it would be better to create a new set of templates that do not use the colors as a background for text. Kaldari ( talk) 06:22, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Here is the change I would like to propose:
Old | F5 | F4 | F3 | F2 | F1 | STS | DEP | UNK |
New | F5 | F4 | F3 | F2 | F1 | STS | DEP | UNK |
As you can see, the F1 F5 color is the main one that needs to be changed. If you squint your eyes and look at all of the old colors, it is readily apparent that the F1 F5 text will be difficult to read for some people.
Kaldari (
talk)
02:19, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
As there seems to be resistance to changing the colors of the template, I'll suggest some other ways that the problem can be solved:
Any of these solutions should bring Infobox hurricane into compliance with WP:CONTRAST. Which of these solutions would be the best to implement? Kaldari ( talk) 04:58, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Wait... wait! I'm a member of the accessibility project. Kaldari made a mistake in the methodology for contrast evaluation. You see, the old algorithm for testing contrast was focused on color difference. It was difficult to comply to, and was abandoned in favor of the luminosity algorithm. You can see the difference for yourself at http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html
If you enter "000000" (black) as a foreground color, and "FF6060" (red) as a background color, you will get the following results.
There is no problem with the black text on the set of colors chosen in this template.
However, as you can see in Hurricane Hugo for example, links are often included in the header of the infobox. Foreground "0945AD" (blue links) on "FF6060" (red) fail to comply to WCAG 2.0 AA level. In conclusion, either the links have to be moved somewhere else in the infobox, either the set of colors will have to be changed indeed. I hope it helps. Dodoïste ( talk) 12:37, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
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Really outdated. You should change the wind speeds of the major hurricane categories. Category 4 needs its maximum wind speed upped by one. The Category 3 needs its maximum wind speed downed by one. The Category 5 needs its minimum winds upped by one. The Category 4 needs its minimum wind speed downed by obe. EpicBrutalGamer2009 ( talk) 11:38, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
as in storm template does this include Extratropical , Tornadoes and other storms? Gona need to make one for Tornadoes , using the hurricane scale for colors can be hard to tell from EF2 or EF3 or EF4 sometimes , would like to make a new Scale using Colors from Noaa. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshoctober16 ( talk • contribs) 20:29, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
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spdepression Typhoon2013 ( talk) 05:06, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
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Replace the entire page with:
{{#invoke:Tropical cyclone categories|color}}<noinclude>{{Documentation}}</noinclude>
Module:Tropical cyclone categories has existed for a while and is fully backwards-compatible with this template; see Module:Tropical cyclone categories#Compatibility. The module centralizes all tropical cyclone categories into one set of data, which should standardize all existing templates which are based on tropical cyclone categories. Chlod ( say hi!) 17:35, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
The scope of this template has expanded from tropical cyclone categories to include categories for more storm types (including tornadoes and winter storms). Please change the module invocation from
#invoke:Tropical cyclone categories
to
#invoke:Storm categories
. The former module now only exists as a temporary redirect following the module move.
Chlod (
say hi!)
23:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hi, I checked the color contrast of each of the colors listed here, and all but one – the purple color #C464D9 – passed both the WCAG AA and AAA levels. It is required to pass AA, and encouraged to pass AAA. Using the tool, I found a slightly different shade that will pass both levels: #CA73DD. Can this be updated? Thrakkx ( talk) 12:47, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
{{
edit template-protected}}
template. Colors have been a topic of much contest. Please see
WT:WPWX for the whole discussion.
Chlod (
say hi!)
08:34, 8 September 2022 (UTC)Yesterday the colors were normal, whether traditional but now. I noticed that they changed something strange. They changed everything for some 'freak colors' that the truth was, it was me or I just visited the opposite encyclopedia. I found out it was true. Is it just a temporary test? Or will it stay permanently? МОДОКАУ 04:48, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
I noticed that the colors got an overhaul (most notably Category 4 & 5) and I was just wondering why? Corgimations ( talk) 08:02, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
@ Modokai and Corgimations: The colour changes are not freaky or ridiculous, but needed to chnage in order to keep the project in line with Wikipedia's rules on accessibility. Basically the project had pandoras box opened for it and is stuck between a rock and a hard place as we needed to change them but knew that there would be a lot of opposition once we did so. Jason Rees ( talk) 10:06, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Maybe we could make the colors more in line with the ones used on the YouTube channel “Force Thirteen“ by making tropical storms green, category fours scarlet and category fives raspberry-magenta? Who knows. Corgimations ( talk) 08:11, 26 February 2023 (UTC) @ Corgimations: You are more than welcome to propose a new colour scheme, but remember that the colours need to be accessible and be able to pass various tests. Jason Rees ( talk) 10:08, 26 February 2023 (UTC)