Talk:Coat of arms of Poole

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Use of a standard Wikimedia Commons style Coat of Arms[edit]

Both here and on the Poole page my attempts to use File:Arms_of_Poole.svg as the free to use Wikimedia emblazonment of the coat of arms of Poole have been consistently undone and removed on the grounds that the dolphin in my emblazonment is incorrect because since 1976 it has been depicted naturalistically. However this is a misunderstanding of the functions of heraldry - the section of the blazon relevant to the dolphin still reads "a Dolphin naiant embowed Argent langued Gules", which gives no instruction on the depiction of the dolphin. John Brooke-Little, in the 1973 edition of Boutell's Heraldry clearly states that the depiction of elements in arms is to a great extent "a matter for the artist to decide". My version of the Poole arms, which are importantly free to use as Wikimedia assets, are absolutely correct to the blazon. It is an incorrect application of heraldry to insist that what has for a time been standard practice in the emblazoning of a coat of arms (such as the naturalistic dolphin seen since 1976) is a necessary. In the spirit of the Wikimedia heraldry project my version of the arms should be kept as the primary one, and the emblazonment used by the former council should be a separate image in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ET72 (talk ET72 (talk) 18:53, 17 March 2022 (GMT)