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:::With nobody else having opposed the suggestion, and someone going so far as to Prod the article, as you noticed, I've gone ahead and removed the web-sourced table and made what I think are appropriate changes to the rest of the text. <span style="white-space:nowrap">– [[User:RobinHood70|RobinHood70]] <sup style="line-height:0">[[User talk:RobinHood70|talk]]</sup></span> 04:49, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
: '''Object''' I STRENUOUSLY AND VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE the deletion of the longer color list. I have lived in [[San Francisco, California]] and have been involved in [[BDSM]] since 1973 and I have seen people wearing every single one of the colors on the first 3/4 of the original list over the past 29 years. I have been to every[[Folsom Street Fair]] since the first one in 1984 and people have continued to wear them there. People still wear the colors today on the annual leather march from the [[Castro]] to Folsom Street one week before the Folsom Street Fair. As sources, besides the websites, there is also the recent 2009 book ''Leatherboy Handbook'' by Vincent L. Andrews Las Vegas:2009 Nazca Plains, Corp. that mentions 41 colors congruent with the list. I deleted colors in the last 1/4 of the original list that had colors I have never seen on the color code cards or in printed sources.
Obviously, it is true that the colors are worn much less often today, because a lot of gay people today [[Cruising for sex|cruise]] through the Internet instead of going to bars, so they can just state their preferences on the website rather than wear the colors to a bar. However, the longer list
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