Talk:Greying of hair

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The spelling of color to colour

I have read this article and see that the word colour has been spelt incorrectly. The word 'color' has a 'u' between the latter 'o' and 'r' and it needs to be ensigned. Thanks. RyanPLB (talk) 23:31, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Color" and "colour" are both valid spellings, it's a matter of American and British English spelling differences. Neither is necessarily preferred within Wikipedia. See WP:COFAQ#ENGLISH: "General topics can use any one of the variants, but should generally strive to be consistent within an article." BirdCities (talk) 13:34, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

color of single hair

in the chapter "causes": "Thus, a single hair cannot be white on the root side, and colored on the terminal side." based on my experience and a simple google search turning up several other people's experience including photographs, this statement cannot be true? 2001:1620:7107:100:68FD:73A8:F425:152E (talk) 13:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Harold Bride cite

I took out the bit about famous examples of people who might have gone grey prematurely due to stress. For reference, I'm going to stick in the best cite I could find regarding Harold Bride: https://charlespellegrino.com/guglielmo-marconi-harold-bride/. The alert reader will note that it's not a very good cite. Note that this isn't a cite for the specific claim that proponents of the "stress->premature-greying" argument cite Harold Bride (I did find one thread in a web forum about the Titanic where somebody reckoned they'd heard something about that, and then other people discussed other anecdotal evidence). Rather, to underscore how unjustified the original content I removed was, I just want to demonstrate how threadbare the case is that the thing people supposedly reference actually happened. Now technically, an event can be a noteworthy reference for a claim despite never having actually happened in real life (e.g. Kitty Genovese), but I feel like no cite for the event PLUS no cite for the event being a common reference adds up to being an even more nebulous inclusion. Dingsuntil (talk) 03:41, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]