Talk:Æthelred I of Wessex

message: A message on OTRS told us the coin :Image:Athelred.gif is not Ethelred I of Wessex but Ethelred the Unready. I have absolutely no idea whether it is so. David.Monniaux 22:34, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think its either, coins of Ethelred I are almost non-existent and Ethelred the Unready's portrait on coins is usually quite distinctive with sticking up hair. The writing on this picture is too pixelated and distorted to interpret and the source taken from en.wikipedia says it all! There is a very good site here to see pictures of the coins of both rulers, but you really need a decent reference book to establish who this image might be. Mighty Antar 01:01, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe this coin is a Hand Type coin of (A)ethelred II the Unread(y); an (A)ethelred I portrait coin is distinctively different when one compares the two coins in "COINS OF ENGLAND & THE UNITED KINGDOM" aka Spink Standard Catalogue of British Coins, issued annually.  Charley 75.7.6.33 07:04, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

text: The image has since been replaced by one of a coin of Æthelred (the first). --Mirokado (talk) 20:37, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect coin 

message: hello! While translating this article into French, I found this image on Commons (it was badly categorized, like most images from the Portable Antiquities Scheme :/). I think it's a more interesting illustration than the one currently used in the #Coinage subsection, since it shows the parallels between the coins of Burgred and Æthelred. – Swa cwæð Ælfgar (talk) 13:07, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coinage 

message: Before I update the page to add his age when he died, I thought I would ask if there is some reason that his age is not already listed; forcing readers to do the math themselves? Christopher Rath (talk) 03:41, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  His Age at Death 

message: "Æthelred's reign was important numismatically" is painfully vague; a word or two about what is meant by this would be surely beneficial to readers. Aza24 (talk) 06:23, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The rest of the paragraph explains it: "Wessex and Mercia were close allies when he became king, and he carried the alliance further by adopting the Mercian Lunettes design, thus creating a unified coinage design for southern England for the first time. The common design foreshadowed the unification of England over the next sixty years and the reform coinage of King Edgar I a century later." I am not clear what else is needed. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:16, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Holy sh–I don't know what's wrong with me. Must have just drawn a blank, yes no issue here of course. Sorry for this pointless thread... Aza24 (talk) 10:03, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vague line 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Vpab15 (talk) 19:22, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Æthelred I, King of Wessex →  – Per WP:NCROY the format  is only used when there is one monarch named X (e.g. John, King of England). The normal format would be  (Henry II of France). Векочел (talk) 23:55, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree the present format is correct; there were Kings of Wessex, Kings of Mercia, Kings of Kent... It helps identify him that his title is "King of Wessex" User:OldeSage
*Support and move any other affected articles that Dudley Miles hints at.  WP:CONSISTENT means broadly, across the whole encyclopedia.  A "micro-consistency" between a trio of articles but against all other handling of similar titles, isn't a consistency, but a larger inconsistency to fix than just one article.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:04, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

text: *The other articles comply with the rules as they have no ordinal and are thus in line with Stephen, King of England and Anne, Queen of Great Britain. There is no logic in distinguishing between the cases based on the presence or absence on an ordinal. Dudley Miles (talk) 11:16, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 12 December 2021