User talk:Gbasaraba

You can move/rename the page so that should be your first option before creating a new one. I am writing you this because you just made two more pages and now there are three identical articles with variants of the name for the same entity: Voivodeship of Maramorus, Voivodeship of Maramures, Voivodeship of Marmatia. This is not the first time I saw you do this. The way you can rename/move to the page is: click on "Actions" on the upper left side->move->write in upper field the name of the article where you want to move it. Finellach (talk)

Edit: I have deleted Maramures and Marmatia pages since the other one seems to be your preference. But again, please use move/rename option first before making a new page. You did the same with Litovoi/Litova and at least one other page. Finellach (talk)

Hello again, quick note...when you are moving a page and especially files do NOT leave a redirect behind (there are two boxes which you need to untick at the bottom), this way by creating a redirect you are clogging the website with bunch of non-existent files. Also please note where the file and the articles/pages are linked and edit them so they are linking to the new/renamed pages and files. Finellach (talk)

Hello, Finellach! Thank you for all this information! I'm quite new at this and so I'm prone to making mistakes. I can't find the two boxes that need unticking, though. Can you be a bit more specific? Thank you in advance! (talk)

When you go to Actions->Move you will go to the move page, now there as you could see is the box where you can edit i.e. insert the new name where you are moving the page/file and below it there is a box where you can give a reason for it. Below everything you have small two boxes which are automatically ticked. One is "Leave a redirect behind" and the other one is "Watch source page and target page". You should untick the first one so it doesn't leave a redirect behind. Finellach (talk)

@Finellach - Simple users like us do not have that option (and we can't delete the redirect either). Solo (talk) 09:42, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Ah ok then, well the only option then is if you move something please let me know...on my talk page is just fine...because I can't just go overview the edits of every single person here. I discovered this only by accident when I noticed some of the files do not appear in certain articles because they were linked under the old name. ;) Finellach (talk)

Before you ask yourself why I have re-uploaded most of your CoA's...I have done it because I was correcting the alignment of the coat of arms you made. I don't how and why but most of your CoA's are slightly off for some reason. It's not a big deal since it can be corrected easily however if we leave it like that then we will have issues in the future. I have seen several CoA's made by both Joakim and myself where we actually corrected some minor glitches on your base and then our versions were off as well. Now the problem is if I copy an element from such a CoA to a standard positioned arms, then that element will be off in that new arms as well, so that makes not one or two but three problems...and since most of your CoA's are all in literally unique positions (sometimes more to the left, sometime to the right, etc.) this is an issue. So just letting you know before you start wondering. I would personally suggest when making new arms to take an older CoA's made by Joakim and then aligning it accordingly both vertically and horizontally to it. ;) Finellach (talk)

Oh, wow... this is really strange, especially since I always start new arms with arms taken directly from the site. :/ And yes, I've seen that most of the changes were slight alterations to the position of the arms. Which is in turn weird, because I always align them in the center in Illustrator. I'll see what I can do about this. Thanks! Gbasaraba (talk)

I think it may be something with the illustrator tbh, I've seen illustrator behaving really strange lately...for example everything seems fine loading it and saving it, then when uploaded suddenly stroke seems much thicker and so on...really weird. I usually use inkscape to position the arms as it has "paste in place" option which is really easy to use...however inkscape isn't completely compatible with illustrator lately and there may be some minor glitches as well so sometimes I am forced to use SVG Cleaner because Inkscape has the tendency to add strange codes when editing illustrator files. In any case it's not a big problem...was just letting you know why I did it. Finellach (talk) 13:20, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

Update: for example, for the arms of the Kingdom of Romania, I simply downloaded them from WappenWiki, reflected the moon and then save it in the same position it was downloaded. So most likely, it's the Illustrator. :/ Gbasaraba (talk)

With all due respect...can you stop uploading ahistorical arms? What you uploaded just recently as supposed arms of Ferdinand I and Charles II as Knights of the Garter has nothing to do with historical accuracy and even heraldry. Putting the belt of the Garter (which is a supporter and not part of the actual shield/arms) within the arms and calling it their coa's as Knights of the Garter has no support in anything. I've deleted both of these btw. The arms of Ferdinand I and Charles I were basically the same arms they used as monarchs, especially Charles I, while Ferdinand (and his son presumably) used the arms that are similar (if not the same) as this. There is a guy on Wikipedia who made reproduction of Garter arms directly from stall plates in Westminster (where the order is based) and you can see his Wiki page and all the arms here. Finellach (talk)

I find it funny that you should say that the arms are ahistorical since they are based on the actual drawings from the College of Arms which I received from the Garter Principal King of Arms (here are the arms of Ferdinand I, for example: [1]). I am currently waiting for an illustrated catalogue of all the stall plates in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (where the order is actually based). If they are different from the College of Arms drawings, mea culpa. As a trivia, King Ferdinand I was very passionate about heraldry and phaleristics, being the one that actually designed both the insignia of the Order of Michael the Brave and the arms of Greater Romania, so I wouldn't be shocked if he was the one who sent his ideas to the College of Arms for his stall plate as a Knight of the Garter.

You can find it funny as much as you want but I am not sure you understand what a coat of arms is. What you see in that print you linked here is the entire Garter stall plate, containing the supporters (eagle, great cross of Saint Michael and the garter belt of the order) along with other decorations (four small crosses on the sides of the plate and the crown). The actual coat of arms is in the middle. Ok? Anyway compare it to this, I already linked it earlier... Finellach (talk)