Talk:College of Arms

message: I think the law surrounding change of name is a bit more complicated: IIRC one may change one's name (given names, surname) at will, and deed poll is merely a way of giving evidence of the fact. But if one has a Christian name, that is a lot harder to change I think. —Ashley Y 03:06, Feb 1, 2004 (UTC)
"Currently only the United Kingdom... have heraldic authorities" -- but the UK as such doesn't (England-and-Wales do, and Scotland does, but there's no overall UK authority), so this sentence might be better recast. (Oh, and this is perhaps picky, but ₤ is the lira sign; £ is the pound sign.) Marnanel 21:06, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Inheritance of arms varies between heraldic jurisdictions so, yes, this description fits well into an article concerned only with English heraldry as administered by the College of Arms in London.  Chelseaboy 09:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

text: Quarter (heraldry) redirects to division of the field. -- ALoan (Talk) 16:07, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now created a new page on Quartering (heraldry) and a disambiguation page for Quartering directing to Drawing and quartering and to Quartering (heraldry).  Chelseaboy 09:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

text: The payments are annual and I have edited to make this explicit.  Chelseaboy 09:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Name Change

message: Hey...I've added the John Brooke-Little article to the list for peer review.  Any of you contributors are welcome to make additions to the discussions.--Evadb 10:15, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Brooke-Little 

message: This article needs to be connected to the article for the Law of Arms, and vice versa. — Hex (❝?!❞) 19:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. talkGiler 15:35, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Law of Arms 

message: Hi. As far as I'm aware, there isn't any system of user-defined 'small', 'medium', and 'large' images. So all user-sized images will be the same size (default is 180 pixels). But not all images are appropriate to view at the same size; the college of arms façade image, for example, really needs a much larger size to be coherent than Lant's Roll image does. (And the default 180-pixel width is clearly not enough.) So I can't think of any solution other than forcing a 250-pixel width. And WP:MOS#Images does in fact make allowance for this reality. This is one of those cases where forcing a certain width is appropriate. Doops |  talk 15:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lead image size 

message: £14 / annum for the King of Heralds? Not likely! No-one can live on £14 per year. Is this true? Jake the Editor Man  (talk) 18:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Er, no indeed. Garter King of Arms gets a magnificent £49.07, the two provincial Kings of Arms a slightly less exuberant £20.25. Still not much, I know... But they supplement their incomes by charging professional fees for private practice work. talkGiler 15:30, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe £14 is actually only the government payment of their wages; in addition the College pays them from the £3950 or more it charges, and private work (particularly family trees) in which the College is involved. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 18:01, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  £14 / annum?? 

message: Hi—I was about to add this office to the list of Heralds Extraordinary, when I noticed that it wasn't in the box at the foot of the article either. For further information see William Peyton and Delhi Durbar. Interestingly, it gets no other Ghits. May I be bold, or is this for others to do? I'm a bit unsure about changing the template box at the bottom of the article... Thanks. talkGiler 14:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that it would be best to wait until a stub has been written to add the title to the box. I mentioned a Coat of Arms article on Peyton's talk page which I recall having a lot of information about the office and the use of heraldry at the Durbar. I can try getting a start on it this week and then add it to the template.--Eva bd 15:04, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. I've written a stub here; it's not much, but it's a start! talkGiler 16:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Added!--Eva bd 16:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delhi Herald of Arms Extraordinary... 

message: While we're at it, can we add Mowbray too? Thoughts? talkGiler 14:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say the same as for Delhi. Wait till we get a stub,then add it to the nav template.--Eva bd 15:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Added!--Eva bd 16:59, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mowbray Herald of Arms Extraordinary... 

message: Is there any specific reason why the coat of arms of the College itself doesn't exist in SVG, but the arms of all its officers do? Legally, as far as I know, it should have the same status, i.e. we should be able to do it. I will check with the people who vectorise arms. --B. Jankuloski (talk) 02:15, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Coat of arms of the College

message: Hi...recently, this edit of mine was reverted without explanation. Wouldn't it be better to include an actual artistic rendering from the College than a computerised rendering of the same?--202.54.254.66 (talk) 08:45, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Coat of Arms

message: I've taken the liberty to add two new links to the See also section, linking to articles on two affiliated societies.
I hope these will stay, but please feel free to raise any doubts here.
In the interest of full disclosure -- I am a member of the White Lion Society, but the reason I added the links here was that the WLS article is marked as orphaned and I wanted to remove that tag.
We could also add links to articles on similar heraldic institutions in other countries. Suggestions? --TOR (talk) 10:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New See also links 

message: Thoughts on whether a Milhist tag is appropriate here? If it were just an article on the College today, I'd say no ... but the history seems inseparable from military history. - Dank (push to talk) 23:15, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Military history? that shouldn't really be there. The College lost its military role in the 15th century and afterwards it was only concerned with tournaments (and as a result; heraldry) and royalty/nobility. At best their earlier job was as diplomats and messengers, not particularly martial. Sodacan (talk) 23:26, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milhist 

message: Not sure exactly what you mean here, but certainly nobody was saying bad things about the heralds. Awien (talk) 12:58, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed to "Fall and rise". Feel free to improve . . . Awien (talk) 14:08, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Denigration" and magnificence 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: How many people (roughly) work at the College? Just wondered ... PhilUK (talk) 21:17, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Employees 

message: Where possible to do so elegantly, wording de-gendered. This might need doing across many UK royalty/gov’t pages. JDAWiseman (talk) 12:03, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  De-gendering