Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 9, 2010

Specialised terminology

The main page blurb uses the following specialised terminology

• “horizontal bicolour” – I can tell from the picture what this means. A blind person might not.
• “placed in the canton” – it sounds like the horizontal bicolour of red above white is that which has been placed in the canton (assuming the reader knows what “canton” means).
• “red charged in white” – without a picture, a reader not familiar with vexillology or heraldry cannot tell from context what this means.
• “charged with” – is that like "charged in"?
• “in the lower fly” – another phrase that most people will have to look up, assuming they have read this far.

I think I remember reading somewhere that it should be assumed that readers reading the lead section will not click any of the links, but I don't remember where.

I am sorry if this sounds harsh, but I can't think of any way to reword my criticisms.

68.109.117.85 (talk) 02:56, 9 August 2010 (UTC)