Talk:Eadbald of Kent

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[edit] New family tree

I'm not convinced the new tree is an improvement, though I understand the old one was a little small and hard to read. I guess I'll wait and see if anyone else has a preference.

If we're going to keep the new one, there are a couple of errors on it that do need fixing, and a couple of stylistic changes I'd suggest.

• "Anna King of East Anglia" -- I would suggest a comma after "Anna"; I think that's the usual way to do it.
• "Eomenred" should be "Eormenred"
• "Seaxbufh" should be "Seaxburh"
• "Hlother" should be "Hlothhere"
• "Eormenhil" should be "Eormenhild"

Personally I would also suggest making the background white, instead of that checkered grey and white. I also think it would be better to make the text upper and lower case, instead of all upper case. Just my two cents. Mike Christie (talk) 02:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

It's not "checkered". It's transparent, and thus show the background image (which is indeed checkered, a tradition borrowed from graphic editing program). I asked for a SVG version because tehse resize more easily (and gifs are notorious for quirky resizes). I'll ask Sagredo (talk · contribs) to make the corrections. Circeus (talk) 17:08, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for explaining the apparent checkered effect. I'd wondered about that; I saw it in another image and was baffled when I realized it didn't show up in the article display. Good point on the resizes -- I have seen that problem and I agree it's worth fixing. One other question: do you think it adds value to have the lines blue and the text black? I find it a bit distracting, but that may just be because I made the old image so I have preset expectations. Mike Christie (talk) 00:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Got the spelling changes. Actually I expected some sooner. White background is easy. All caps is a little easier to read in a small image/thumbnail. Look at "of" Not a big deal to change, basically typing, but typing isn't my thing. You'd want to proof read it carefully again. Or give me a list so I can cut and paste. Blue vs black, another easy change, it just looked kind of boring to me in all black. (Family Colors, perhaps?)

What about:

ANNA,
KING OF
EAST ANGLIA

(different line break placement?) Let me know. Sagredo^{⊙☿♀♁♂♃♄} 01:19, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

My graphics ability is pretty much zero, and I have no visual sense, so I think we should go with whatever you think looks best. Thanks for doing this, by the way. And I really like your user name; I used that handle myself on LambdaMOO, once, a long time ago, and found myself talking to a chair of a university philosophy department as a result. Mike Christie (talk) 01:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I looked at the article and realized that it should match the other diagram, and so changed it to all black. Some do use color. Sagredo^{⊙☿♀♁♂♃♄} 06:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)