Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology/Tasks

This page contains a list of open tasks for the Heraldry and Vexillology Wikiproject. If you want to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of heraldry and vexillology, pick a task from the list below. Feel free to add tasks to the appropriate sections, or discuss them on the talk page.

Heraldry by Country Series
A series of articles about the use of heraldry of different countries, ideally featuring the following points: Add the template at the bottom of the article to produce the following navbox
 * Origins/History
 * Usage of arms(by whom? nobility/gentry/towns/corporations/anyone)
 * Regulation (uncontrolled/government dept/law/heralds)
 * Distinctive Features of that country's heraldry
 * Current Usage

Click on a red link above to create a new article. Click on a blue link for an existing article, which probably needs improvement. Edit the template to add/remove countries.

Assessment
The quality of articles within the scope of the project can now be assessed by adding a class parameter to the WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology template on an article's talk page, e.g. . Rating articles in this way allows us to see what articles we need to focus on, and tracking the number of articles in different classes over time will gives us a quantitative measure of the improvement in Wikipedia's coverage of heraldry and vexillology. At the moment around 20 articles need to be assessed. See the assessment department for more details.

Officers of Arms in the ODNB
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains a large number of biographies of British officers of arms. It would be good if we could get a decent article of each of these heralds. A list can be found here. The ODNB article can obviously be used as a source, see the ODNB website. Most public libraries in the UK and Ireland allow their members to access the ODNB website from home, see here for more information

Improving national flag pages
It would be useful to develop recommended guidelines for national flag pages (Flag of ... pages), including improving and promulgating the Template:National flag infobox.

Articles for creation
Add requests for heraldry- or vexillology-related articles which need to be created here.


 * Cronista de Armas
 * Alexander Brodie
 * Hans Dietrich Birk
 * Ottfried Neubecker
 * Johann Siebmacher
 * Burgher arms

Articles for improvement
Add requests for heraldry or vexillology related articles which need to be improved here
 * Canadian Heraldic Authority has just been listed at the Featured Article Review page.
 * United States heraldry
 * Scottish heraldry
 * Polish heraldry
 * Saint Andrew's Cross, tagged with an expert tag, requesting help to distinguish between saltire and Saint Andrew's Cross
 * War flag
 * Heraldry - it had a peer review a while ago, but nothing was done. There's also a request on the talk page for it to be improved (eg inline citations) for inclusion in Wikipedia 0.5
 * Heraldic crown
 * I am in the process of fixing Belarusian_heraldry from a tiny stub. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Coats of arms of Africa, just a start, please help completing it, easy task
 * American College of Heraldry has some NPOV problems. These were raised by another user on the talk page, but no one has done anything with them. I'll do it if I can find the time, but that seems unlikely. Hopefully someone else can take a look.--Eva b d  02:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Image requests

 * Note: There are a lot more requests at commons:Commons talk:WikiProject Flags. &mdash; Nightst  a   llion  (?) 22:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Add requests for images of coats of arms, flags or other heraldic/vexillological images here Created images should be uploaded to Commons. Heraldry and vexillology articles needing images can be found in the category Heraldry and vexillology articles needing images.


 * I didn't know where to post this, so I'll put it here. This is not exactly a request for an image, but more of a request for information about an image. I was perusing the Commons and found this image:



Can anyone provide more information. The description looks Polish to me, but darned if I know. It looks like it may be a grant of arms of some sort and may be usable in an heraldic article. Any ideas?--dave-- 20:41, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I think it is Polish (the History of Poland category on the Commons version of the page would suggest so). From the description on the image page, I would guess it's a diploma/grant of nobility to Seyfrieda von Rotha in 1464, from the chancellery/chancery of czar/emperor(?) Frederick III (possibly the Holy Roman Emperor; the dates fit). The document would now appear to be in the archives of the archdiocese of Wroclaw. It looks like it might be written in German, but the resolution's not really good enough for me to tell. The file is used in the polish article on nobility. From Ennoblement it looks like arms were granted at the same time. Although there are are couple of hundred Polish coat of arms stubs (as I can verify from assessing most of them over the last week), I can't find this particular one. If you want more info you could try dropping a note on the talk page of the user who uploaded it, User:Steifer, either here or at Commons. Dr pda 21:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The description is Polish alright, and it looks very much like contemporary grants of arms. The style of the drawing is German, so Emperor Frederick III sounds like the most obvious candidate. The seal is also very close to the seal of Charles IV (see: Golden Bull). Although unlikely, it is perhaps wrong to rule out Frederick III of Saxony completely. In Danish history, arms were normally granted upon ennoblement, and in this case, Danish culture is no doubt a copy of German practice. In any case, we need a Wappenrolle of German heraldry in order to make an identification. Very interesting example though, I'd always thought the two horns on the helmet were distinct of Danish heraldry. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 22:36, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Flag images

 * Image:Norwegian Royal Standard.svg Example
 * Image:Standard of the Crown Prince of Norway.svg Example
 * Image:Norwegian Royal Masthead Pennant.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of the Minister of Defence of Norway.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of the Chief of Defence of Norway.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of the Inspector General of the Royal Norwegian Navy.svg Example (not a good one, see army)
 * Image:Flag of the Inspector General of the Norwegian Army.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of the Inspector General of the Norwegian Air Force.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of the Inspector General of the Norwegian Home Guard.svg Example
 * Image:Norwegian postal flag.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of the Custom Services of Norway.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Nortraship.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Akershus.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Buskerud.svg Example (not a very good one, see the COA)
 * Image:Flag of Finnmark.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Hedmark.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Møre og Romsdal.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Nordland.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Nord-Trøndelag.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Oslo.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Rogaland.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Sør-Trøndelag.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Telemark.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Troms.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Vestfold.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Vest-Agder.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Østfold.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Bergen.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Voss.svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Kautokeino.svg Example and other municipalities of Norway
 * Image:State flag of Norway (1814-1821) north of Cape Finisterre.svg Example
 * Image:State flag of Norway (1844-1898).svg Example
 * Image:Flag of Norwegian ships south of Cape Finisterre (1818-1838).svg
 * Image:Norwegian Royal Flag (1844-1905).svg Example
 * Image:Norwegian flag 1818-1844 south of Cape Finisterre.svg Example
 * Image:Naval ensign of Sweden and Norway (1815-1844).svg
 * 1) Pre-1970 Flag of Fiji
 * 2) Pre-1962 Flag of Uganda


 * Flag of Logan County, Ohio — I'm improving some articles on my home county, and I'd like to have an image for the county flag, which can be found here, at the right side of the header. Nyttend 13:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Two Flag Image Requests - Rodrigues Island and St. Barts
Hello! I hope this is the right place to make requests (if not I apologize). I usually haven't made Wikipedia flag or image requests in the past, but there are two flags that I would like to see included in Wikipedia (if possible). I don't have any of the skills to create these flags myself, but I was hoping that someone on this project would like to try it.
 * The first is the flag of Rodrigues (island), an island dependency in the Indian Ocean controlled by Mauritius. There is a picture of the flag that I found on French Wikipedia on the Rodrigues page.  However, when I put it on the web page, I discovered that it was tagged for deletion since it was taken directly from the FOTW website.  I was wondering if anyone could try to create and replace the Rodrigues flag with an image that can be used on Wikipedia. Here is the flag on FOTW.


 * The second flag that I am requesting (if possible) is for the French dependency of Saint-Barthélemy, which is better known as St. Barts.  It was recently politically separated from the neighboring island of Guadeloupe to become its very own French collectivity, a type of territory.  However, I have seached and I can't find any images of its unofficial flag on Wikipedia.  It is a white flag with the St. Barts coat of arms on it.  Here is a picture from FOTW  The flag also appears on some St Barts brochures.

I don't have the skills to create these flags myself, since they are both very intricate. However, if someone with more knowledge could try to recreate these flags in a format that can be used on Wikipedia I would really appreciate it! Thank you very much for your time. Have a great day! Scanlan 00:23, 8 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Image requests have a better chance if you forward them to WP:GL. They are the ones with the expertise. Valentinian T / C 07:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you!Scanlan 21:38, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Blazon requests
Add requests for blazons of coat of arms here

How would you blazon the Flag of California?