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This is the new home of the Unofficial SCA Heraldry Wiki, since wikispaces closed.

It has been suggested that a searchable wiki for SCA Heraldry would be useful. And when the subject comes up, it is determined that, ideally, someone with knowledge of Wiki programming should take on this project, hosting it at a secure server that "we" own and control. After six years of living on a wiki farm, we now have a "real" wiki here!!


If you have some competence in SCA Heraldry and/or wiki programing (MediaWiki) and would like to help, you're welcome to join in!


Templates have been created for your use. See the Basic Instructions in the left sidebar.


Entries should refrain from personal opinions, and should '''quote''' or '''carefully paraphrase''' official SCA Heralds documents such as the ''Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory (SENA)'', the ''Glossary of Terms'', Collected Precedents, Letters of Acceptances and Returns, and other recognized references. The original sources should be clearly noted, dated, and, if possible, linked. 


'''WARNING: Do not cite this website as a reference. This website is a collection of information from more reliable sources brought together here for easy reference. If you have found the information you seek here, go to the original sources of the information which are clearly indicated (and usually linked) within each article. Confirm the information in those original references and use <u>them</u> in your documentation.'''


This wiki has 905 articles and over 400 images incorporating information from:
* The Index of the Ordinary of the SCA Armorial
* The Glossary of Terms, including Reserved/Restricted Charges, Proper Colorings and Default Postures
* The Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory (SENA) with Appendices
* The Administrative Handbook
* The Heraldic Primer (the original one by Stephen Gold)
* An annotated index of the Pennsic Traceable Art Project
* The Index of the Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry, 3rd Edition
* Precedents from the Cover Letters from 2012 to the present
* Compiled Name Precedents & Armory Precedents 
* Miscellaneous precedents as they've come up on heraldic discussions
* Numerous period devices as they've come across in heraldic discussions
* Modar University, St. Gabriel's Academy (articles and reports), period armorials, artwork sources, on-line names sources, etc. etc.


''' ''This is not an official document of SCA, Inc., the SCA College of Arms or any of their subsidiaries, etc.'' '''


If you deem something to be in violation of copyright, please let me know - ''sofya at heraldshill dot org''

Thank you.  

Mistress Sofya la Rus, OL, Nobis Herald Extraordinary

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 '''WARNING: Do not cite this page as a reference. This page is on this wiki only to make the content "searchable" and easier to find. If you find the information you seek here, go to the original sources (generally linked) to verify the information and use them for your documentation.'''

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+This is the new home of the Unofficial SCA Heraldry Wiki, since wikispaces closed.
-This is the home of the Unofficial SCA Heraldry Wiki, created in 2012.
+It has been suggested that a searchable wiki for SCA Heraldry would be useful. And when the subject comes up, it is determined that, ideally, someone with knowledge of Wiki programming should take on this project, hosting it at a secure server that "we" own and control. After six years of living on a wiki farm, we now have a "real" wiki here!!
-''' ''This is not an official document of SCA, Inc., the SCA College of Arms or any of their subsidiaries, etc.'' '''
-=Navigation=
+If you have some competence in SCA Heraldry and/or wiki programing (MediaWiki) and would like to help, you're welcome to join in!
-Use the Search Bar (upper right), or browse the following categories (some much more developed than others because... wiki):
+Templates have been created for your use. See the Basic Instructions in the left sidebar.
-{|{{wikitable}}
+Entries should refrain from personal opinions, and should '''quote''' or '''carefully paraphrase''' official SCA Heralds documents such as the ''Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory (SENA)'', the ''Glossary of Terms'', Collected Precedents, Letters of Acceptances and Returns, and other recognized references. The original sources should be clearly noted, dated, and, if possible, linked.
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-*[[:Category:Announcement Heraldry|Announcement/Cry Heraldry]]
-*[[:Category:Armory|Armory]]
-*[[:Category:Armory Consults|Armory Consults]]
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-*[[:Category:Bynames|Bynames]]
-*[[:Category:Charges|Charges]]
-*[[:Category:Consulting Tools|Consulting Tools]]
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-*[[:Category:Cultures|Cultures]]
-*[[:Category:Field Divisions|Field Divisions]]
-*[[:Category:IAPs|Individually Attested Patterns]]
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-*[[Heraldic Myths|Heraldic Myths]]
-*[[:Category:Kingdoms|Kingdoms]]
-*[[:Category:Names|Names]]
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-*[[:Category:Name Consults|Name Consults]]
-*[[:Category:References|References]]
-*[[:Category:Research|Research]]
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-*[[:Category:Rules|Rules]]
-*[[:Category:Tinctures|Tinctures]]
-*[[:Category:Voice Heraldry|Voice Heraldry]]
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-=History=
-Many years ago, when wikipedia was fairly young, it was suggested (over and over) that a searchable wiki for SCA Heraldry would be useful, too. And whenever the subject came up, it was determined that someone with knowledge of Wiki programming should take on this project, hosting it at a secure server that "we" own and control. At the time, I couldn't do that, but I had been playing with super-simple wikis on a free wiki farm, so I started this as a beta test project in 2012.
+'''WARNING: Do not cite this website as a reference. This website is a collection of information from more reliable sources brought together here for easy reference. If you have found the information you seek here, go to the original sources of the information which are clearly indicated (and usually linked) within each article. Confirm the information in those original references and use <u>them</u> in your documentation.'''
-After six years the old wikispaces farm closed, and I had to move the entire wiki (with a lot of help from a programmer friend) and learn MediaWiki coding.  I am still cleaning up some of the formatting issues that process created back in 2018.
-This wiki has well over a thousand articles and hundreds of images (and links to more images) incorporating information from:
+This wiki has 905 articles and over 400 images incorporating information from:
 * The Index of the Ordinary of the SCA Armorial
 * The Glossary of Terms, including Reserved/Restricted Charges, Proper Colorings and Default Postures
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 * The Heraldic Primer (the original one by Stephen Gold)
 * An annotated index of the Pennsic Traceable Art Project
-* The Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry, 3rd Edition (images used by permission)
+* The Index of the Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry, 3rd Edition
-* Compiled Name & Armory Precedents
+* Precedents from the Cover Letters from 2012 to the present
+* Compiled Name Precedents & Armory Precedents
 * Miscellaneous precedents as they've come up on heraldic discussions
 * Numerous period devices as they've come across in heraldic discussions
 * Modar University, St. Gabriel's Academy (articles and reports), period armorials, artwork sources, on-line names sources, etc. etc.
-If you have some competence in SCA Heraldry and/or wiki programing (MediaWiki) and would like to help, you're welcome to join in!
-Templates have been created for your use. See the Basic Instructions in the left sidebar.
+''' ''This is not an official document of SCA, Inc., the SCA College of Arms or any of their subsidiaries, etc.'' '''
-Entries should refrain from personal opinions, and should '''quote''' or '''carefully paraphrase''' official SCA Heralds documents such as the ''Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory (SENA)'', the ''Glossary of Terms'', Collected Precedents, Letters of Acceptances and Returns, and other recognized references. The original sources should be clearly noted and, whenever possible, linked.
-If you deem something to be in violation of copyright, please let me know - ''sofya at calontiri dot info''
+If you deem something to be in violation of copyright, please let me know - ''sofya at heraldshill dot org''
 Thank you.
-Mistress Sofya la Rus, OL, OP, Nobis Herald Extraordinary
+Mistress Sofya la Rus, OL, Nobis Herald Extraordinary
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+[[File:Logocaption.jpg|right]]
+ '''WARNING: Do not cite this page as a reference. This page is on this wiki only to make the content "searchable" and easier to find. If you find the information you seek here, go to the original sources (generally linked) to verify the information and use them for your documentation.'''
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