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Contents 1 Thanks... 2 Heraldry... 3 Talk:Lord_Lyon_King_of_Arms 4 Portcullis Pursuivant 5 Portal?... 6 Template Help... 7 SMILE... 8 OBE 8.1 Thank you 9 Ecclesiastical heraldry 10 DYK 11 Order of the Bath and other Orders 12 Parser functions 13 Heraldry Reply 14 re Ref fixer 15 Blanc Coursier 16 Flag maps 17 Images from Burke's 18 Stronge_baronets

[edit] Thanks...

Great work in correcting typos and such on a few heraldic pages. Well done. Evadb 12:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heraldry...

Great work on Ormond, Dingwall and Kintyre. If you ever need more heraldic work, my user page has a list of Officers of Arms and Offices of Arms that need creating/editing/expanding. Keep up the great work.--Evadb 22:52, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

PS - I like your Lord Lyon template at User:Dr pda/Sandbox. good work.--Evadb 23:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

All of the Scottish Officer of Arms red links have been taken care of. I think that you can begin adding your wonderful new template to the pages now. Well done.--Evadb 12:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

The template looks great. Nicely done.--Evadb 18:33, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Great continued work in heraldry. I like your new Francis Jones article. Well done.--Evadb 12:32, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Dr pda 12:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Lord_Lyon_King_of_Arms

"What is your source for this? "

I was going on memory of having read this long ago. Performing a quick google I get back "Sir Malcolm Innes as Marchmont in the first issue of Double Tressure (1979) describes the inscrutible workings of the Court of Claims at the time of the 1953 coronation noting that the said court refused to Lyon the designation Lord Lyon King of Arms in the ceremonial (though the Earl Marshall of England continued to so style him in correspondance)"

Now of course that entry could be wrong as could my memory. Of course it would hardly be the unique if Lyon was entitled to one style in Scotland and another in EnglandAlci12 16:41, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

See my reply on Talk:Lord_Lyon_King_of_Arms#Court_of_Claims. Dr pda 23:29, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portcullis Pursuivant

You Wrote:

Hi, I noticed in the list of office holders you've changed post 1820 to 1820 for James Pullman. I put post 1820 because I was unable to find evidence of the date of his appointment, but found George Frederick Beltz listed as Portcullis in the ceremonial for the funeral of George III (Supplement to the London Gazette of Feb 19th 1820, reprinted in The Times Feb 21 1820). Thus Pullman's appointment musy have occurred some time after this. (I find Pullman mentioned as Portcullis in 1830, so he must have been appointed some time in the preceding decade). Perhaps pre 1830 would have been better than post 1820. Do you have evidence for his appointment in 1820?--Dr pda 17:06, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Ooops...sorry about that. I'll revert my mistake as soon as possible. Keep up the great work on these armorial biographies. Well done.--Eva ^db 06:54, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal?...

Hey. I've proposed the creation of an heraldic portal. If you think that such a thing would be helpful, you can voice your support HERE and hopefully we can get the heraldry category items organized better. Thanks for all your hard work on heraldic topics.--Eva ^db 08:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template Help...

Hello. I'm working on a template of the different offices of arms in the CHA (similar to the College of Arms and Lord Lyon one that you created). If you can help me get rid of all the red links, then I think we can give it a go. The sandbox version is HERE. Keep up the great work. Thanks.--Eva ^db 11:54, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SMILE...

[edit] OBE

Thanks for the thoughts about the OBE Categories. It is much appreciated and it saved me MUCH time.--Eva ^db 13:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Great continued work on heraldry articles, Doc. You are doing a wonderful job, and I especially appreciate it around this time when my year gets busier and I have less time to commit. I'm also going through an rfa right now, so it is a bit stressful. Thanks again.--Eva ^db 09:33, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I appreciate the work you did on Lord Bingham's page - he is such an important part of our justice system in the UK and he deserves to have a good picture of him posted and correct info in his profile. I'm still fairly new to wikipedia and having someone to clean up the articles on our more distinguished Lords and Ladies is invaluable. Cheers! Biicl 15:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ecclesiastical heraldry

I've had this article listed at WP:PR for a week with no response except the automated suggestions. I don't know what else I can do with it. It's over 20kb so possibly not appropriate for WP:GOOD. Do you think it could go for FAC? I am encouraged by the statement that FAs may be marked so as not to be showcased on the Main Page. Gimmetrow 21:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying that about the crown. It seemed peculiar. Gimmetrow 17:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Any more comments in regard to featured article? Have I addressed the concerns you listed?Gimmetrow 00:13, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 29 July 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Charles Murray Kennedy St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Many thanks for the well written and well referenced article. Look forward to more contributions at DYK. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 23:38, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Order of the Bath and other Orders

Thank you for your helpful comments. I, for one, was confused and completely agree that the three categories need to be distinguished as you suggest. I have added more Bath CfD today. - Kittybrewster 16:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

The various people of the Bath have now been transported. I have done the obvious ones and left a few for you. - Kittybrewster 17:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I rather suspected it might be GCB but hadn't time to look it up before you did. Is your edit word for word from the statue as Maj Gen and Admiral and not equiv at all. Alci12 13:56, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Fwiw if you're editing those lists, List_of_Knights_Companion_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath shows the same inconsistant name/title selection as many other wiki lists. Take David Dundas (though there are othes), he's listed with his baronetcy (created 1815) when he gained his KB in '04. Yet Wellington is listed by the form he was known at the time he gained the KB. Also Andrew_Mitchell on the list points to a tory MP of the 1980s/90s :-) Alci12 15:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parser functions

Thanks. I think I'll give it a rest for tonight, but you can see my attempted code at User:Valentinian/Sandbox/Code or the revision history of Template:X9. I can make it work if I just get the thing to write "Needed-class", but I want it to give one message if the page already exists and one if it doesn't. The text works and so does the If / then feature, but there is a bug giving either an unexpected "{" or "}" . I'll try giving it a look another day. I noticed that the other projects don't normally have this feature, I don't know why. WP:Film has it, but sorts the articles into the unassessed category. But I think the template is getting into shape now. I have added (but deactivated) code for taskforces so that feature works. So does the "requested images" feature. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 22:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Nice job! That feature was driving me nuts, but it works like a charm now. I guess we just have to create the redlink categories and we'll be in business. It is a bit odd that no "standard" template exist for this kind of thing, but I think the HV (or is it VH?) one is getting pretty useful now. Thanks again. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 23:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I knew such a list existed somewhere, but it was one of the thing I hadn't got around to fix. I think I'll give it a try adding the "Infobox needed" feature the bot apparently loves. Just for the fun of it. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 23:45, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heraldry Reply

Good Doctor,

Thanks for the kind words on the rewrite. I think that it will help bring it up to FA status, though I'd wanted to wait to nominate it until it had been looked over and reviewed. Your concerns are legitimate and good, and I recognize that this is simply a starting point. Thanks, too, for the support of the officers of arms in the ODNB idea. Unfortunately, I don't think any libraries in my area of the US have ponied up the big bucks for these volumes. I'll have to leave the work to you and others. Your busy schedule is very understandable, so please take your time. As the end of the marking period draws nigh here, I'll be busy marking papers and entering them into the computer, as well. Keep up the great work.--dave-- 14:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re Ref fixer

Dr pda,

Huge thank you from a fellow heraldry buff (albeit not skilled enough to help much around here). Kudos on your detective work, everything's working fine now. Thanks again, Fvasconcellos 21:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blanc Coursier

Philip,

Thanks for the additions to the Blanc Coursier Herald page. The image is also great. My sources were a bit scattered as I read them, so it's nice to have a bit of unity. I'll get sources on those citations today or tomorrow. Great work.--dave-- 01:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I've found the two sources that I used for the missing references on this article. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to use this citation method. If I give the sources to you, can you cite the two lines that you tagged?

• "Blanc Coursier's Tabard" H.L. Gandell. The Coat of Arms Vol XI No 81 January 1970, 11.
• "Arms of Walter Aston Blount, Clarenceux" John Brooke-Little. The Coat of Arms Vol VII No 63 July 1965, 256.

Can you put those in the right spots? Thanks.--dave-- 23:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, looks great!--dave-- 14:24, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flag maps

Thanks for the hint. I'll assign a few more images to this category. Nice image of Canada, btw. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 23:55, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

This one:

I also noted a similar creation for Ontario. See: {{Canada-geo-stub}} and {{Ontario-geo-stub}}. Cheers. Valentinian ^{(talk) / (contribs)} 00:38, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images from Burke's

This image was photographed from Burke's yes, although I cannot remember which edition. I shall check. I'm not sure what the copyright is on coats of arms, it couldn't belong to the artist as one can easily have it on notepaper &c. and I can't imagine it belongs to Burke's. I must admit copyright isn't something I know a lot about and advice would be appreciated.--Couter-revolutionary 14:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Forgive the interjection. Burke's Peerage Ltd sold all their printing blocks to Heirloom & Howard Ltd who in turn sold them on to whomever. I wonder whether that makes an image taken from a block the property of the artist who made the block on the instruction of Burkes or the property of Burke's or the person who now owns the block. - Kittybrewster 14:51, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stronge_baronets

I made the comment about the seeming use of mental on metal to Kitty b4 tidying the abreviations to the full words. I'm not clear what you're saying though was the original entry wrong - ie a copying error from Burkes blazon - or were you guessing what it should be Alci12 17:27, 15 November 2006 (UTC)