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This is the home of the Unofficial SCA Heraldry Wiki, created in 2012.

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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.  

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:
* 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 Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry, 3rd Edition
* Compiled Name & 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.

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''

Thank you.  

Mistress Sofya la Rus, OL, OP, Nobis Herald Extraordinary

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