Talk:Ordinary (heraldry)

message: The U.S. flag is barry, but the shield (borne on an eagle carrying arrows in one talon and olive branches in the other, etc.) is paly.  The flag has a canton, not a chief, anyway...  AnonMoos 22:55, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Flag vs. Shield

message: Has the definition of ordinary been discussed before? I think that it's seriously lacking as the lead of the article. Any suggestions for a sharper and more accurate definition?--dave-- 18:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No one knows what the definition of an ordinary is.  It's notoriously true that there is nothing true about ordinaries that is not true of at least some other charges.  All one can really do is list them, and there is just general, not precise, agreement about even this.  --Daniel C. Boyer (talk) 14:21, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ordinary... 

message: Let's start a collection of good examples of ordinaries seen in WP illustrations. (I'm going through Swiss municipalities, most of which have good armory.) —Tamfang (talk) 01:14, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: List removed from here.  See User:Tamfang/blazons. —Tamfang (talk) 23:55, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  examples 

message: What do you think of sub-indenting the diminutives under their parents?  How about separating the fixed subordinaries, such as gyron, from the mobile subordinaries, such as lozenge? —Tamfang (talk) 19:19, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  reorg? 

message: I don't know how many times I have seen an ordinary with a complex line - chevrons wavy and fesses embattled abound in heraldry - but I don't see any mention of it here. Wouldn't it be worth at least mentioning that ordinaries can, and often do, have complex lines (such as those discussed at Line (heraldry))? Just looking at a few examples among municipal arms in Finland, featuring those wonderfully Finnish fir-tree and fir-twig lines, we find a fess fir-twigged and wavy, a fess embattled with tree-top lower line and a bend fir-twigged and wavy. See? Heraldry can be fun! Wilhelm_meis (talk) 15:52, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Please accept our abject apologies for not thinking of that sooner. Sir. —Tamfang (talk) 01:02, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complex lines 

message: Mich, if you're trying to avoid letting a picture intrude on the following heading, the conventional way is with  (see :Template:-).  "Hard" blanklines can be excessive if the reader's window is narrower than yours. —Tamfang (talk) 23:58, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  whitespace 

message: In the section on diminutives, shouldn't the voider (diminutive of flaunch) be included? --68.170.177.190 (talk) 00:40, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voiders? 

message: The acorns are the wrong color - or in the blazon but argent in the picture.
a chief enhanced—Per chevron azure and gules; on a chevron argent three mullets pierced gules, in chief two acorns or, in base a unicorn's head erased argent; a chief enhanced and embattled vert, fimbriated or—Matthews, Scotland
Mamabear47 (talk) 08:50, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in example 

message: I am wondering why these graphics were used. So many are Scottish arms, but are depicted on shields that would never be used in Scotland. I do not know where these round bottomed shields, that widen towards the top come from, but they are not used in the UK. Surely an encyclopaedia should be using the "rule", rather than "the exception that proves the rule". If someone who does not know reads this article, they would think that round bottoms were the standard shield shape for Scotland - nothing could be further from the truth!
Why are we using flags/banners to illustrate an article about heraldry? They are different subjects. We don't use pictures of cats to illustrate an article about dogs, just because they all have four legs. The graphic for the gyron, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gyron_green_wiki.jpg , is the worst possible example - the gyron would change shape if it was depicted on a shield!
There are tens of thousands of coats of arms on Commons to choose from, I think we can make some better decisions.  Kiltpin (talk) 10:24, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why were these decisions made? 

message: I have removed the information about the Spanish fess. It is flag terminology and not heraldic. There has not been one coat of arms ever to use a Spanish fess. Kiltpin (talk) 12:51, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish fess 

message: Hello, the sections in "Ordinaries and sub-ordinaries" in Charge (heraldry) and "Types" in Ordinary (heraldry) have the same scope. I propose to merge both sections. The pictures in the first article are a bit more clear than those in the latter. Regards -- W like wiki good to know 13:15, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing, given the lack of support with stale discussion, and some ambiguity as to what was being proposed. Klbrain (talk) 18:11, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger discussion: Types of ordinaries 

message: There has been a message at the top of the mobile subordinary section since January 2023. No action has been made regarding it, so I propose that it is discussed to see if something can be done. @W like wiki says the section is referring to charges instead of ordinaries, so I believe the discussion should start with what they use to defend the position. They cite [] this PDF, which refers to the charges as geometric charges. However, the PDF is a modern source (the user specifically cites the Dec 10, 2021 version) which is associated with the SCA. SCA heraldry functions on different rules that historical heraldry, as their heraldry can be unilaterally changed by them. As a result, I do not believe this PDF is enough to prove the user's point. SaavayuAdrin (talk) 20:53, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mobile subordinary or charge