Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology/Tasks

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Here are some heraldry and vexillology related things you can do: Featured Article Candidates (FAC|FAR): none Good Article Candidates: none Peer Review: none Improvement: Scottish heraldry, War flag, Coats of arms of Africa More... Requests: Cronista de Armas, Alexander Brodie, Fur (heraldry) More... Image Requests: Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, Royal Standard of Norway More...

This page contains a list of open tasks for the Heraldry and Vexillology Wikiproject. If you want to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of heraldry and vexillology, pick a task from the list below. Feel free to add tasks to the appropriate sections, or discuss them on the talk page.

Contents 1 Tasks involving more than one article 1.1 Heraldry by Country Series 1.2 Assessment 1.3 Officers of Arms in the ODNB 1.4 Improving national flag pages 2 Tasks involving individual articles 2.1 Articles for creation 2.2 Articles for improvement 3 Image requests 3.1 Flag images 3.2 Coat of arms images 3.3 Other images 4 Blazon requests

[edit] Tasks involving more than one article

[edit] Heraldry by Country Series

A series of articles about the use of heraldry of different countries, ideally featuring the following points:

• Origins/History
• Usage of arms(by whom? nobility/gentry/towns/corporations/anyone)
• Regulation (uncontrolled/government dept/law/heralds)
• Distinctive Features of that country's heraldry
• Current Usage

Add the template {{Heraldry by country}} at the bottom of the article to produce the following navbox

Click on a red link above to create a new article. Click on a blue link for an existing article, which probably needs improvement. Edit the template to add/remove countries.

[edit] Assessment

The quality of articles within the scope of the project can now be assessed by adding a class parameter to the {{WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology}} template on an article's talk page, e.g. {{WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology|class=stub}}. Rating articles in this way allows us to see what articles we need to focus on, and tracking the number of articles in different classes over time will gives us a quantitative measure of the improvement in Wikipedia's coverage of heraldry and vexillology. At the moment around 20 articles need to be assessed. See the assessment department for more details.

[edit] Officers of Arms in the ODNB

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains a large number of biographies of British officers of arms. It would be good if we could get a decent article of each of these heralds. A list can be found here. The ODNB article can obviously be used as a source, see the ODNB website. Most public libraries in the UK and Ireland allow their members to access the ODNB website from home, see here for more information

[edit] Improving national flag pages

It would be useful to develop recommended guidelines for national flag pages (Flag of ... pages), including improving and promulgating the Template:National flag infobox.

[edit] Tasks involving individual articles

[edit] Articles for creation

Add requests for heraldry- or vexillology-related articles which need to be created here.

[edit] Articles for improvement

Add requests for heraldry or vexillology related articles which need to be improved here

• United States heraldry
• Scottish heraldry
• Polish heraldry
• Saint Andrew's Cross, tagged with an expert tag, requesting help to distinguish between saltire and Saint Andrew's Cross
• War flag
• Heraldry - it had a peer review a while ago, but nothing was done. There's also a request on the talk page for it to be improved (eg inline citations) for inclusion in Wikipedia 0.5
• Heraldic crown
• I am in the process of fixing Belarusian_heraldry from a tiny stub. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 07:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Coats of arms of Africa, just a start, please help completing it, easy task

[edit] Image requests

Note: There are a lot more requests at commons:Commons talk:WikiProject Flags. —Nightstallion (?) 22:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Add requests for images of coats of arms, flags or other heraldic/vexillological images here Created images should be uploaded to Commons. Heraldry and vexillology articles needing images can be found in the category Heraldry and vexillology articles needing images.

• I didn't know where to post this, so I'll put it here. This is not exactly a request for an image, but more of a request for information about an image. I was perusing the Commons and found this image:

Can anyone provide more information. The description looks Polish to me, but darned if I know. It looks like it may be a grant of arms of some sort and may be usable in an heraldic article. Any ideas?--dave-- 20:41, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I think it is Polish (the History of Poland category on the Commons version of the page would suggest so). From the description on the image page, I would guess it's a diploma/grant of nobility to Seyfrieda von Rotha in 1464, from the chancellery/chancery of czar/emperor(?) Frederick III (possibly the Holy Roman Emperor; the dates fit). The document would now appear to be in the archives of the archdiocese of Wroclaw. It looks like it might be written in German, but the resolution's not really good enough for me to tell. The file is used in the. From Ennoblement it looks like arms were granted at the same time. Although there are are couple of hundred Polish coat of arms stubs (as I can verify from assessing most of them over the last week), I can't find this particular one. If you want more info you could try dropping a note on the talk page of the user who uploaded it, User:Steifer, either here or at Commons. Dr pda 21:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

The description is Polish alright, and it looks very much like contemporary grants of arms. The style of the drawing is German, so Emperor Frederick III sounds like the most obvious candidate. The seal is also very close to the seal of Charles IV (see: Golden Bull). Although unlikely, it is perhaps wrong to rule out Frederick III of Saxony completely. In Danish history, arms were normally granted upon ennoblement, and in this case, Danish culture is no doubt a copy of German practice. In any case, we need a Wappenrolle of German heraldry in order to make an identification. Very interesting example though, I'd always thought the two horns on the helmet were distinct of Danish heraldry. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 22:36, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flag images

1. Image:Norwegian Royal Standard.svg Example
2. Image:Standard of the Crown Prince of Norway.svg Example
3. Image:Norwegian Royal Masthead Pennant.svg Example
4. Image:Flag of the Minister of Defence of Norway.svg Example
5. Image:Flag of the Chief of Defence of Norway.svg Example
6. Image:Flag of the Inspector General of the Royal Norwegian Navy.svg Example (not a good one, see army)
7. Image:Flag of the Inspector General of the Norwegian Army.svg Example
8. Image:Flag of the Inspector General of the Norwegian Air Force.svg Example
9. Image:Flag of the Inspector General of the Norwegian Home Guard.svg Example
10. Image:Norwegian postal flag.svg Example
11. Image:Flag of the Custom Services of Norway.svg Example
12. Image:Flag of Nortraship.svg Example
13. Image:Flag of the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club.svg Example
14. Image:Flag of Akershus.svg Example
15. Image:Flag of Buskerud.svg Example (not a very good one, see the COA)
16. Image:Flag of Finnmark.svg Example
17. Image:Flag of Hedmark.svg Example
18. Image:Flag of Møre og Romsdal.svg Example
19. Image:Flag of Nordland.svg Example
20. Image:Flag of Nord-Trøndelag.svg Example
21. Image:Flag of Oslo.svg Example
22. Image:Flag of Rogaland.svg Example
23. Image:Flag of Sør-Trøndelag.svg Example
24. Image:Flag of Telemark.svg Example
25. Image:Flag of Troms.svg Example
26. Image:Flag of Vestfold.svg Example
27. Image:Flag of Vest-Agder.svg Example
28. Image:Flag of Østfold.svg Example
29. Image:Flag of Bergen.svg Example
30. Image:Flag of Voss.svg Example
31. Image:Flag of Kautokeino.svg Example and other municipalities of Norway
32. Image:State flag of Norway (1814-1821) north of Cape Finisterre.svg Example
33. Image:State flag of Norway (1844-1898).svg Example
34. Image:Flag of Norwegian ships south of Cape Finisterre (1818-1838).svg Example
35. Image:Norwegian Royal Flag (1844-1905).svg Example
36. Image:Norwegian flag 1818-1844 south of Cape Finisterre.svg Example
37. Image:Naval ensign of Sweden and Norway (1815-1844).svg Example not found
38. Pre-1970 Flag of Fiji
39. Pre-1962 Flag of Uganda

[edit] Coat of arms images

[edit] Other images

[edit] Blazon requests

Add requests for blazons of coat of arms here