User talk:Merry

Greetings, and welcome! --Creaktop

Thanks :) --Merry
I just tried to write an article about heraldry without using pictures. Comments are welcome - I'd like to know if it's understandable at all...

First read, looks good, if a bit hard to follow in places (all that new jargon all at once).

Second, more critical read.

Add "Heraldry is" to the first line, making it a full sentence.
wikify "coat of arms".
you introduce shields without showing any relation to the subject.
I seem to recall another position of a living thing, "regardant" or some such, where the animal/human is depicted as looking at the viewer.

So what do you do for an encore? --buzco

Pictures :) Describing heraldry without them is a losing battle.

Thanks for your help - I'll flesh out the shield concept as soon as possible. You're right about regardant - the problem is that there are so many positions - I'll never be able to list them all.

Regardant(/reguardant) is looking back over the shoulder; gardant is looking towards the viewer. (See, for example, http://ivbalis.org/heraldry/blazon.html). I have fixed this on the heraldry page. -- AdamW

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I found your old user page while checking out some old deleted contributions. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 06:18, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]