Talk:Auburn (color)
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[edit] Tacitus Description
The Romanised Gaulish historian Tacitus describes the hair of the germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Franks, Danes, et cetera) as being 'Rutilo' meaning Auburn in latin. I think this is noteworthy and so have added it. 84.64.252.12 11:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hair color and ancestral habitation place
My paternal grandfather (1863-1928) was born in West Prussia (now part of Poland) and was said to have auburn hair. Is this an indicator that he had an ancestor of the Germanic tribes? Musicwriter 03:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vivid Auburn
Why is the page linked to a Google image result for a 'Fire elf'? It doesn't mention vivid auburn at all, and has a fairly bad drawing, rather than a photo etc. Just found out it's a straight copy and paste, including link from http://www.answers.com/topic/auburn Stuart McN 19:42, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- Answers.com mirrors Wikipedia content; they got it from us, not the other way around.
- That entire section is a bit odd, though -- not just the "fire elf" image. Obviously some people dye their hair in red-brown shades that are not found in nature, but the idea that this is one specific color called "vivid auburn", represented by hex triplet #932724, seems like original research -- i.e., something made up by a Wikipedian. I'm very much inclined to take out the "vivid auburn" infobox unless someone can provide some kind of citation. (I'm pretty sure that "bright auburn" is a more common term for a hair-dye color, anyway.) —Celithemis 08:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
Is the picture of the girl reading the book with her feet in the camera really necessary? I think somebody should crop the picture or remove it.Beardownaz9 20:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
hiya, i don't really understand what the problem with the image is. what do her feet or her nose or her shirt have to do with the fact that she has auburn hair? confused on this i must confess. 69.118.244.33 02:31, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I just think the picture would be better if you cropped it to remove her feet it takes up much of the picture and is a distraction,also I never mentioned her nose or shirt but if her nose took up much of the picture I think it would be better cropped.Beardownaz9 22:27, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- With the composition of the photo, cropping out the feet is not going to work well. In any case, if you dislike the picture so much, you should feel free to provide a *better* freely licensed image, but please stop removing it entirely just because you don't think it is ideal. The image provides information -- a visual image of what auburn hair looks like -- and you're reducing the usefulness of the article by taking it out. —Celithemis 00:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
