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Had to revert the last edit, as a glance at the map of Wessex in Thomas Hardy's works will show that he certainly included Devon (as Lower Wessex) within his literary Wessex.

I note that the flag of Wessex has been changed, but essentially the illustration on here is similar to the previous one. Was there a copyright issue? James Frankcom

The version currently shown was designed by William Crampton of the Flag Institute in 1974. I changed it from an "improved" version designed by Chris Fear, because all the Wessex flags currently in existence are based on the Crampton design, rather than Fear's more complex version, which would be more expensive to make Nick xylas 04:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC):

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[edit] King Agbert of England?

What goes on here? King Egbert was the first King of England? This contradicts the England article and generally every other source which indicates Athelstan was the first King of England. Egbert did not refer to himself as King of England. He was the Bretwalda. This article confuses things. Even Alfred never called himself King of England. White43 13:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Golden Dragon

I notice there's no reference to the infamous Golden Dragon/Wyvern that decorates many things in the region. Appeared on the Bayeux tapestry and referenced by Henry of Huntingdon and Matthew of Westminster when talking of the Battle of Burford. 84.12.47.154 11:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anyone interested in working on Wessex related articles?

I left a note at the forum page for the medieval wiki project, but I don't know how many people read that, so I thought I'd post a note here and at Mercia too. Is anyone interested in working on getting all the Wessex (or Mercia) related articles up to high quality, e.g. featured standard? It would mainly be the kings and battles articles, plus a general history article (this one) and maybe a few others. If you're interested, let me know and I'll see about setting up a task force page under the main wiki project to help coordinate activities. Mike Christie (talk) 17:15, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested merges

The following discussion is archived. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
The result was merge both Ceol of Wessex and Ceolwulf of Wessex into Wessex. -- Mike Christie (talk) 10:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I think there are some minor kings of whom there is so little that can be said that they do not need their own articles. I've nominated Ceol and Ceolwulf for merging, and thought I'd stop there and see what others think before nominating more. Aescwine looks like another candidate to me.

I expanded the history section to discuss the early kings in more detail, since the merge does require that these kings are discussed here as fully as they can be. What I've done is just a draft/placeholder so that the merge can proceed, if there's no other reason not to. Mike Christie (talk) 21:20, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes indeed! put the single sentence or whatever little's known into a footnote in the relevant article of larger context (Wessex), bold the name as it appears in that article, as the object of a redirect, and make the stub-without-a-future into a redirect. No information gets lost, and anyone with new material can add it to the footnote, or even create an article. Few would complain, except the disinfobox makers, who generally like to complete their collection of empty boxes, and the biographical directory entry listers. Neither group is building an encyclopedia. If every fool can "be bold!" why not a sensible editor too!--Wetman 04:47, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Map discussion

Yorkshirian recently added this new version of an old map to this article; it was removed by Deacon of Pndapetzim and re-added by Yorkshirian. I'd like to replace it with this map instead, which doesn't use boundaries. The changes were made to several articles, so to centralize discussion, please post at Talk:Mercia#Map if you have an opinion. Mike Christie (talk) 02:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)