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		The Pursuivant's Barnstar
		Your heraldic lions delightfully and accurately display each of the attitudes assigned to lions in heraldry. Your work has been a valuable contribution to the Heraldry and vexillology project and is greatly appreciated! Wilhelm_meis (talk) 16:13, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		I came here via your editor review, Sodacan. While I originally intended too, I'm figuring out I won't be able to hash out a full review for you but I do see that you are sorely in need of the graphic designers barnstar. I would hope that you have already gotten much thanks for your work, but here is just another small token for you. Real quality man! jorgenev 18:48, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Brilliant work on College of Arms. Brilliant Achowat (talk) 20:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

		The Good Article Barnstar
		Thanks Sodacan for helping to promote Grand_Palace to Good Article status. Please accept this little sign of appreciation and goodwill from me, because you deserve it. Keep it up, and give someone a pat on the back today. --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 00:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	such effort! Turn685 (talk) 19:02, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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		Awarded for your AMAZING!!! and innumerous contributions to wikicommons --Rushton2010 (talk) 00:06, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	For starting a valuable and much needed quality article on Royal Badges of England. keep it up! ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 09:06, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Great stuff here! I was wondering if I could use your French Imperial Eagle as a logo on a set of dice I am designing. Thanks, Evan Crazycaptain (talk) 04:53, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Your work is absolutely exquisite. I have posted a request for an updated version of a coat arms for the county of carmarthenshires wiki! You are an absolutely great GD. Cfnbryn (talk) 19:40, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Your works are just awesome :) Cálestyo (talk) 02:05, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Providing improved graphics in place of my basic efforts. Cdjp1 (talk) 12:09, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar

Sodacan, Thank you for the picture of https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Azure_Dragon#/media/File:Flag_of_the_Qing_Dynasty_(1889-1912).svg I am featuring it in a book about the stars. I hope that I am attributing the artwork to you correctly. The only name I can find is your wikipedia name "Sodacan". Here is the attribution: The Azure Dragon on the national Flag of the Chinese Empire under the Qing dynasty (1889-1912), details per the restoration of Beiyang fleet researcher, Wikipedia commons/Sodacan If incorrect, please email me at davidwillhite@hotmail.com Dwillhite (talk) 23:21, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		For your continued outstanding additions of graphics relating to heraldry and associated topics across Wikipedia. Awarded by Cdjp1 (talk) 07:52, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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Request for input at Thai royal funeral

Hi. There's discussion on whether the Thai royal prefixes phra and phra boromma should be used in article text, and how to spell merumat/merumas, at Talk:Thai royal funeral#Spelling and treatment of Thai royal terms. Since you do quite a bit of work on Thai royal customs-related articles, your input would be appreciated. Thanks. --Paul_012 (talk) 23:43, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

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May I ask for help?

Sawasdee khrap, Mr.Sodacan. I would like to ask about the coat of arms you have done beautifully. I'm Chester from Thailand. I'm an English teacher who has been teaching in a school named Nonsungsritani School which is 40 kms far away from the downtown of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. I'm the head of the intensive English program and I really love the arts of the coat of arms around the world. Now, I have no ideas who in Thailand can help me in making the coat of arms for my special program and school. Finally, I come to contact you here. Excuse me, can you please kindly help me for making the coat of arm? May I have the details for the pay you would like to get in making a coat of arm following my idea? My school name is Nonsungsritani which means The school located on the high hill which is honored to the city. My inspirational coat of arm is the British coat of arm which the animals stand on the hill (right?). How could I contact you to talk over about this idea? Could you please help me? Thank you so much. Sincerely, Chester.

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Request for Help: Speakers of the House of Commons

Dear Sodacan

Recently I have attempted to create an article listing the heraldic achievements of speakers of the British House of Commons, based on similar articles about the armorials of various heads of state and government. The draft has twice been turned down by administrators. As a significant contributor to articles relating to heraldry, your assistance would be most valuable.

Yours,

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I would like to contact you directly by email.

Dear Sir,

You make super beautiful vector reproductions and I would like to have your e-mail to ask you questions.

Can you re-contact me please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jace-abh (talk • contribs) 09:54, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

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Wat Phra Kaew

I recall that sometime ago you mentioned that you were working on a major revision of the article. Do you perhaps have a workable draft that could be used to prop up the article for its upcoming Main Page appearance? The article is going to need clean-up anyway, but if you already have some work done I'd hate to let it go to waste. --Paul_012 (talk) 00:06, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

It's not as beefed out as I would have liked. But sadly still not finished. I have never done a draft before. When will the article be on the main page? --Sodacan (talk) 04:34, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

The lead image is scheduled as Picture of the Day for 7 May. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:54, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Alright, no guarantees but will try to workout something before then, please help me review it when its published. I just looked at the stuff I got and there is only one complete section, so there is a lot to do. By the way it will be a complete rewrite, I will not be using any of the original texts. Sodacan (talk) 12:00, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. But please don't feel pressured or rushed to finish this; I wasn't actually hoping for a complete overhaul in two days' time. The thought was more like, if you already have some material lying around, I can help polish it up so it can be seen sooner. --Paul_012 (talk) 17:25, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

It's okay, I will take it as a challenge. --Sodacan (talk) 17:27, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

@Paul 012: Finished. Please check immediately for typos, punctuation, grammar and other things. Rushed is an understatement, but the pressure finally made it happen. Will add more sources and books within the next few days. Hopefully good enough for main page. Please add to the lede especially, old one was more about the Emerald Buddha than the actual temple. Sodacan (talk) 16:57, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Wow, thanks a lot. I'll continue copyediting as soon as I can. There are some further queries which I'll post on the article talk page. --Paul_012 (talk) 00:21, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

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Coat of arms of the Cape Province

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Pls., check that. Thanks. 5.18.199.183 (talk) 23:40, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

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Flag of India 1907 (Nationalists Flag)

Hi Sodacan,

Would it be possible for you to make some typographic improvements on the "Flag of India 1907 (Nationalists Flag)" file? On Madam Cama’s birthday I visited her article and saw that the vowel signs (matras) in the Devanagari text aren’t placed correctly.

Assuming that you don’t know Devanagari script, I’ll describe it in simple terms: In this cute video you can see that the accent on top of the second letter and the accent below the last letter should be moved to the right, to touch the vertical stem of the letter.

From this drawing shown in a video (you’ll have to pause the video there) you can see that there are more than one ways to write these words: together or with a space. Also, instead of the last letter with the accent below, it’s also possible to just write a dot accent on top of the previous letter. But don’t let this confuse you – your writing is perfectly OK, as long as you can adjust the accents a bit.

The same video has a colored version much like your drawing at this frame and I just hope it’s crisp enough that you can see how the accents should be placed.

Thanks in advance!

 Done --Sodacan (talk) 01:25, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Australian coat of arms source link

Hi Sodacan, could you update the source link for this image? Tried looking for it in the National Archives site with the item code but I wasn't able to find it. Thanks in advance! Horserice (talk) 17:35, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

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Duchess of York pre-divorce arms

Hi Sodacan. Hope you're doing well. As the original creator of the elements that were used to create File:Arms of Sarah, Duchess of York, 1986-1996.svg and File:Coat of Arms of Sarah, Duchess of York, 1986-1996.svg, I wanted to see if it would be possible for you to make a minor change in either of these files. A user raised concerns about a potential error in both of these files, specifically stating that the two images show "the grassy base and thistle floating in the middle of the shield, which is erroneous. The thistles should be emerging from the base of the shield (as in her pre-marital arms). I checked The Heraldry Society and it seems that what he says actually is true. I also noted that in the file originally uploaded by you the thistles emerge from the base. Since you have experience with heraldry I wanted to see what your opinion was and whether you can fix it or not. Thanks a lot. Keivan.f^Talk 23:58, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	It's my honor to presenting to you The Graphic Designer's Barnstar. Thank you so much for you wonderful contributions. Dr. Editorial (talk) 14:57, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Insignia of Regiments of Indian Army

Hello @Sodacan:

I request you to please create SVG vector images of insignia of Indian Army's regiments. If you wish to do so here is the list of insignia -

• Assam Regiment
• Bihar Regiment
• Brigade of the Guards
• Dogra Regiment
• Garhwal Rifles
• Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry
• Jammu and Kashmir Rifles
• Jat Regiment
• Kumaon Regiment
• Madras Regiment
• Mahar Regiment
• Maratha Regiment
• Mechanised Infantry Regiment
• Naga Regiment
• Punjab Regiment
• Rajputana Rifles
• Rajput Regiment
• Sikh Light Infantry
• Sikh Regiment
• The Grenadiers

Thanks and hope you will respond.

Regards Soap Boy 1 (talk) 20:07, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:History of Thailand 1932–1973

Template:History of Thailand 1932–1973 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:23, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

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Camilla's new coat of arms

Hi Sodacan. I just that you have updated Catherine's coat of arms and changed its coronet to reflect her new position as the Princess of Wales. I was wondering it you planned to apply the necessary changes to Camilla's coat of arms since she's now queen consort. The section on her arms needs to be updated and there's no one who could do it better than you. Regards. Keivan.f^Talk 20:10, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Actually, I just checked the page on the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom and realized that it has already been created. I added it to the main page as well. Many thanks. Keivan.f^Talk 08:30, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

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How you learned?

Hi sodacan big fan of your work I was interested din starting to make vectors in my own free time I was curious what tools you used to learn or tutorials? 45.51.210.55 (talk) 07:16, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Flag of Qing

Hello @Sodacan:

You are the person who made and modified the Qing flag file.However, there is no evidence that the dragon had a green tail on the flag of the Qing Dynasty, so please correct it to a white tail. 1.242.178.6 (talk) 00:17, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello Sodacan!

Hello, I am a relatively new user to wikipedia but I noticed when I was sifting through some Heraldry that you had a wreath in the Coat of arms of Infanta Paz of Spain (Bavarian Version) and I was wondering if there was a template for it or a file of it? Many thanks!

-Nova NovaSuperSuperSuper (talk) 22:48, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Horrible Histories

It premiered just over ten years ago, but only this morning I spotted your illustration of St Edward's Crown in a sketch about Elizabethan royal mail (S5E3). The monarchs song from S3E2 also uses your graphics extensively.[1] Robin S. Taylor (talk) 10:08, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Prince William

Your current graphic of William's armorial achievement omits the inescutcheon of the Principality of Wales but photographs from a visit to Birmingham on 20th April show that said inescutcheon was included on the flag and shield atop his car roof.[[2]][[3]] Robin S. Taylor (talk) 12:06, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

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The Tower of London

Several of your royal escutcheons are in use there, as spotted on this Reddit thread.[4] Robin S. Taylor (talk) 16:56, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

The Royal Family Website (Again)

Your graphic of the heir apparent's feathers now appears in the header of an archive section. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 15:02, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

David Torrance

His recent paper on the finances of the royal family uses your illustration of the arms of the Duchy of Cornwall on page 48. Unusually for these appearances he has explicitly credited you.

On another note, I've recently uploaded the blazons of another twenty-five life peers for you and other artists to have a go at illustrating. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 15:40, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Princess Michael of Kent

The header of her website uses your illustration of Elizabeth II's arms, though curiously not the Princess's own. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 11:53, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

hi sodacan

Can i use some of your art in my public use collection? I can give you the corresponding credits, but I cannot guarantee that those who use it will do so. For more context, I am creating a collection of resources for a video game community, these resources are intended for people to use in their modifications of the video game, all of this without any commercial purpose. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2802:8010:4114:9B00:4D08:9F2D:C735:CC7A (talk) 00:33, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Royal Variety Charity

Their website uses your graphic of the royal arms (still with St Edward's Crown) on the front page. A different depiction appears in the header. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 11:41, 22 September 2024 (UTC)