Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology

message: A discussion has been opened at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography#County flags: discussion 1 concerning the UK county flags, which you are welcome to participate in. Thanks, A.D.Hope (talk) 11:16, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK county flags discussion 

message: There is a deletion discussion at :commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Coat of arms of Queen Camilla.svg that may be of interest to members of this project. GrindtXX (talk) 23:20, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal heraldry svg deletion discussion 

message: An editor has requested assistance regarding whether the coats of arms included in the article Coat of arms of Russia are the correct ones. Please see . voorts (talk/contributions) 20:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion on Russian coats of arms 

message: See Talk:Embowed, where I raised a question in 2010 to silence —Tamfang (talk) 18:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  enarchment 

message: It appears that several flags on this wiki have been the brainchild of Oleg Tarnovsky, an individual who has made up multiple flags back in the 90s/2000s and his work has been erroneously been propogated as factual by multiple vexiollogical sites.
Some examples are listed below;
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Tripolitanian_Republic.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Free_State_of_Chutkotka.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bandera_de_Kamchatka,_1921-1922.svg
In lieu of this, I propose the project makes a conceded effort to remove these flags from articles and to mark them correctly as being fictional/erroneous. Thanks.
🤓 WeaponizingArchitecture | scream at me 🤓 15:19, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long-due removal of fake flags 

message: I'm wondering whether anyone from WP:HERALDRY would mind taking a shot at creating some free quivalents for the following non-free COA: :File:Coat of Arms of Norberto do Amaral.png, :File:Coat of arms of Harry Goodhew.jpg, :File:Coat of arms of Kay Goldsworthy.gif, :File:Coat of arms of OM XII Fajutagana.png, :File:Coat of arms of OM XIV Porlares.png, :File:Coat of Arms of Felipe Pulido(San Diego).jpg, :File:Coat of Arms of Jeffrey Marc Monforton(Detroit).jpg and :File:Coat of arms of archbishop Thomas Chung An-zu.png. All these were almost certainly uploaded in good faith, but there seem to be issues with them per :WP:FREER and :WP:NFC#CS that might mean they can't per :WP:NFCC given that it's only the emblazon, not the blazon, that is generally considered eligible for copyright protection when it comes to COA; so, freely licensed emblazons of equivalent quality could replace these non-free ones. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:13, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free equivalents of non-free COA 

message: On left is the flag of the American city of St. Louis. I don't know heraldry at all, but looking it up I came up with
I think that is right, except probably the bezant part. It is not a coin, and it has a fleur-de-lis on it. I'm not sure what to do and request advice? Should I
#Leave it be, it's OK
#Add "decorated/emblezoned/whatever with a fleur-de-lis"
#Delete the phrase "with a bezant" altogether.
#Delete the entire phrase, as the "with a bezant" is incorrect and has no proper replacement, thus the description is incomplete and this is not acceptable, or delete for other reasons
#Other?
Thanking you for your consideration, Herostratus (talk) 16:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I would blazon it Gules, a pall fesswise wavy azure fimbriated argent, surmounted at the junction by a bezant charged with a fleur-de-lis azure.  Others may do differently. —Tamfang (talk) 03:36, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, very good, I will use that, thank you (I'll write "could be described as..." to account for it being apparantly arguable). Herostratus (talk) 12:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need help with St Louis flag, please and thank you?