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I wonder if it would be worth mentioning on this page about "sight blazoning" (a WP editor writing a blazon based upon an image, rather than translating a written blazon from one language to another), as to whether or not it is accepted practice on Wikipedia. My sense is that it is not accepted practice (with exception for demo shields, which do not concern the arms of [someone]), as this could be considered a form of
WP:OR and would likely lead to a proliferation of inaccurate but authoritative-sounding blazons throughout Wikipedia's articles. Blazons (of the arms of [someone]) appearing in Wikipedia's articles should have a reliable source, and should not just be "made up" by editors, but is this within the scope of this style guide?
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Oppose move. The Heraldry project progresses in fits and starts, but in terms of this particular style guide, it would be a mistake to have it subsumed by the MoS project, because knowledge of blazon is specialized. The MoS should point to this, but it would not be valuable to have non-experts deciding on best policy regarding blazon. --
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✆17:14, 23 June 2013 (UTC)reply
I still do work for the project on a fairly regular basis. I regularly browse through unassessed and stub H/V articles to reassess, and I occasionally find an article to work on for a while, to get it to the next level. I really couldn't say how active others are in terms of that kind of work, and I don't know of any way to measure that, so I would say just because the project page is relatively quiet doesn't mean we aren't still at work improving H/V articles, sometimes even coordinating our efforts through user talk page discussions. So I guess my question for Zzyzx11 is how would you define an active/inactive project? I think it has gone from making decisions on how to organize WP's h/v-related content to simply doing the quiet labor of slowly improving those articles. My question for Evertype is this: If we move WP:Blazon to WP:MoS/Blazon, does that really imply that folks at MoS who are unfamiliar with heraldry and blazoning are going to meddle with the consensus already established by the H/V community? I doubt they are any more likely to do so after this move than if we simply linked it from MoS without moving, and I think it needs to be linked from MoS anyway for better visibility to editors outside the H/V project who encounter blazoning and may not be sure how best to deal with it. After all, isn't that really WP:Blazon's target audience? Wilhelm Meis(
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