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:Looking over the extended table, by and large it's the last bunch that I find questionable. Most of the first 3/4 of the table constitute reasonably common practices in the gay BDSM community, so it's not difficult to imagine that they might have developed hankies to go with them. Nevertheless, as is stated in the text itself, the entries in the second table seem to be an amalgamation of web sources, are most likely not commonly used/known colours, and are not reliably sourced at all. Rather than trimming selectively, which no one can really authoritatively decide on, I'd suggest we remove the entire second table and any related text for the time being. I'm sure there's something more recent than ''The Leatherman's Handbook II'' to use as a source, which may list a few more colours/patterns that have come into common use. I'll ask around and see if someone can provide a recommendation for a modern reliable source. <span style="white-space:nowrap">– [[User:RobinHood70|RobinHood70]] <sup style="line-height:0">[[User talk:RobinHood70|talk]]</sup></span> 03:17, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
::Having now asked a large number of gay BDSMers, the general consensus is that anything more than the older ones are unreliable at best and generally unused or minimally used in real life, and for that reason, anything "authoritative" is probably out of the question. There are numerous websites devoted to the hundreds of wild ideas that everyone and their dog has had since the advent of the Internet, but besides the Leather Man's Handbook II, already mentioned on the article, only one book was mentioned: Leatherboy Handbook by Vincent Andrews, which apparently has a list of 41 hanky codes. All the other recommendations were websites, most or all of which were self-published or otherwise non-authoritative. As such, I would recommend that we remove the entire second table (which appear itself to have come from two different websites) and reduce it to a small blurb that says something to the effect of their being a wide variety of more expansive lists available on the web. <span style="white-space:nowrap">– [[User:RobinHood70|RobinHood70]] <sup style="line-height:0">[[User talk:RobinHood70|talk]]</sup></span> 03:52, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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